A story of love, jealousy, betrayal and triumph over the odds captured the attention of 40 young people this week, who were in Cambridge for a Taster Day organised for young people in local authority care.
Running now until November 20 Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge is exhibiting the work of Bridget Riley, one the world’s most celebrated abstract artists. Collected over the span of her fifty year career, Riley’s work is an engaging example of the ‘Op Art’ movement.
Cambridge Festival of Ideas debate to examine the changing nature of political speeches.
Cambridge University academic, Dr Emily Lethbridge, is breathing new life and understanding into the centuries-old Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) during a unique year-long research trip.
Professor Sir Mark Welland, head of The Nanoscience Centre at Cambridge University and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence, has been awarded two prestigious honours by the US Department of Defense and the US Department of Energy.
As mobile phone cameras improve, emerging forms of social media are basing themselves in ‘iPhoneography’. While social media is often held up as an example of the increasingly vacuous and self-obsessed nature of society, research into these new networks shows they can encourage creativity, and even provide users with a therapeutic outlet.
A University of Cambridge academic is to suggest that grown-ups enjoy children’s classics because they are dissatisfied with life in the adult world.
Research reveals 12 steps for executives who want to follow a business model innovation approach to service provision.
A new study reveals how drug reimbursement policy in Poland is leaving gaping loopholes for pharmaceutical firms to exploit, raising questions about other, post-communist, EU member states.
Scientists at Cambridge University are exhibiting a prototype table that demonstrates how biological fuel cells can harness energy from plants.
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