Opinion: There are also drawbacks to being bilingual
26 April 2016Tomas Folke (Department of Psychology) and Julia Ouzia (Anglia Ruskin University) discuss the cognitive disadvantages that may be associated with learning more than one language.
Does nature make you happy? Crowdsourcing app looks at relationship between the outdoors and wellbeing
26 April 2016A new app will crowdsource data to help scientists understand the relationship between biodiversity and wellbeing. The app, developed at the University of Cambridge, maps happiness onto a detailed map that includes all the UK’s nature reserves and green spaces.
Inside information: Students and prisoners study together in course that reveals the power of collaborative education
26 April 2016A highly innovative project in which Cambridge students and prisoners studied together at a Category B prison in Buckinghamshire has broken down prejudices and created new possibilities for all of those who took part. The researchers behind it suggest that more such collaborative learning initiatives could help dismantle stereotypes and offer prisoners a meaningful vision for the future after release.
Unlocking innovation in the supply chain
26 April 2016Jinchen Hou from the Institute for Manufacturing comments on how members of complex supply chains can form alliances, in order to unlock the innovation that’s often hiding within individual companies.
Call to arms: how lessons from history could reduce the ‘immunisation gap’
25 April 2016A rise in the number of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases has highlighted the growing trend for parents not to have their child vaccinated. Could the activities of a group of teenagers in 1950s America inspire a fresh look at the effectiveness of pro-vaccine public health information campaigns?
First performance in 1,000 years: ‘lost’ songs from the Middle Ages are brought back to life
23 April 2016An ancient song repertory will be heard for the first time in 1,000 years this week after being ‘reconstructed’ by a Cambridge researcher and a world-class performer of medieval music
Two Honorary MAs awarded for outstanding service
23 April 2016Assistant to 34 Cambridge mayors and HM Lord-Lieutenant honoured by the University of Cambridge
Opinion: There’s no such thing as a natural-born gambler
22 April 2016Anthony Pickles (Division of Social Anthropology) discusses why gambling is a relatively modern invention.
Opinion: The man who taught infinity: how GH Hardy tamed Srinivasa Ramanujan’s genius
22 April 2016Béla Bollobás (Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) discusses the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan and the influence of his tutor Godfrey Harold Hardy.
UK’s top student hackers compete for cyber security
22 April 2016Students from the UK’s top cyber security universities will compete in Cambridge this weekend, in part to address the country’s looming cyber security skills gap.
