Fantastic Mr. Dahl
07 September 2011To mark Roald Dahl Day on September 13th and the 50th anniversary of James And The Giant Peach, Professor Maria Nikolajeva explains why he remains such an important figure for young readers.
Natural born killers
07 September 2011Newly hatched chicks of African honeyguide birds bite to death their foster siblings to eliminate competition.
Media models for the digital age
06 September 2011The headlines don’t look too good for newspapers. With falling readership and growing competition from the Internet, newspapers are questioning how and whether they can survive in the digital age. What they need to find is a successful business model for the future. Gates scholar Andrew Gruen is investigating just what that might look like for a new media start-up.
Death by monoculture
02 September 2011Having just returned from a year spent documenting the language and culture of the remote Inughuit community of north-western Greenland, Dr Stephen Leonard describes how he witnessed first-hand the manner in which globalisation and consumerism are conspiring to destroy centuries-old cultures and traditions.
Inside Britain’s biggest Iron Age fortress
01 September 2011A major excavation at Britain’s biggest Iron Age hill-fort has begun in Somerset, in the hope that it will at last enable historians to explain the meaning and purpose of the enigmatic site.
Food security: your questions answered
31 August 2011Over the past month, the University of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century – how to guarantee enough food, fairly, for the world’s rapidly expanding population. As part of this, we asked whether you had a question that you wanted us to answer, and put them to a panel of academics who specialise in research to do with food security. Here's what they had to say. Thanks to everyone who sent questions in!
Professor Lawrence Sherman awarded Benjamin Franklin Medal
31 August 2011The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London will award the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Medal to the Wolfson Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University, Lawrence W. Sherman.
Graphene goes plasmonic
30 August 2011Researchers have discovered a crucial recipe for improving the characteristics of graphene devices for use as photodetectors in the next generation of pholtovoltaic devices for telecommunications and energy harvesting.
Education is….between Diversity and Chipmunk
24 August 2011Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela and Epictetus made an unexpected appearance last month between top acts Diversity and Chipmunk as part of The Transformation Trust’s annual end-of-term celebration for pupils and teachers, Rock Assembly.
A brighter forecast for weather-beaten Britain?
22 August 2011Ever headed out for the day expecting bright sunshine, only to end up getting soaked in a downpour instead? If you’re reading this in the UK, chances are you have – and now your help is needed in a new project which aims to sharpen up forecasting so that people’s plans are less frequently thwarted by the Great British Weather.
