A Greek tragedy in health?
10 October 2011Cambridge-led research documents rises in HIV, heroin use, prostitution, homicides and suicides in the wake of the Greek financial crisis.
Born identity revealed in newly-opened archive
07 October 2011A Nobel Prize Medal, a postcard from Einstein and a Hitler-stamped letter of expulsion are among a fascinating archive of documents and other material belonging to Max Born – one of the fathers of quantum mechanics – being opened by Cambridge University’s Churchill Archives Centre.
Possible tool to help cocaine users kick the habit
06 October 2011Medicines which increase levels of the brain chemical dopamine may hold the key to helping those addicted to cocaine and amphetamines kick the habit, researchers from the University of Cambridge have found.
With friends like these
06 October 2011Artist Ulyana Gumenuik spent two years at Trinity College listening to, and drawing inspiration from, a range of world-leading academics. Her new exhibition, which opens today, displays the work that grew out of that period.
Paterson Medal and Prize
06 October 2011Dr Jochen Guck from the University’s Department of Physics has been awarded the Paterson Medal and Prize for distinguished early career research in applied physics by the Institute of Physics.
Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence
04 October 2011The Lacemaker, one of the great masterpieces of the 17th-century Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer, is to go on display in the UK for the first time as part of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Scientists demonstrate potential new treatment for most common form of infant leukaemia
03 October 2011New drug could treat mixed-lineage leukaemia (MLL).
University response to HE White Paper
30 September 2011The Council of the University of Cambridge has submitted its response to the Government's White Paper "Students at the Heart of the System".
Prehistoric pre-school
30 September 2011Archaeological research reveals that 13,000 years before CBeebies hunter-gatherer children as young as three were creating art in deep, dark caves alongside their parents.
Strawberries and custard voted the most popular exhibits at Physics at Work 2011
29 September 2011The Atomic Weapons Establishment and the University’s Biological and Soft Systems Research Sector shared the honours this year in the hotly contested Best Demonstration competition, judged by the 2,500 school students from around the region who attended Physics at Work 2011.
