Nicholson at Kettle's Yard
05 August 2002Works by Ben Nicholson, one of Britain's most distinguished pioneers of abstract art and the man who inspired Jim Ede to create Kettle's Yard, are being exhibited at the gallery this summer.
Pufferfish genome unveiled
29 July 2002An international team of scientists based in Cambridge, Singapore and California last Friday (26 July 2002) announced the publication in Science of their work describing the sequencing and preliminary analysis of the genome of the Japanese pufferfish, Fugu rubripes.
Fitzwilliam trials new visitor guides
24 July 2002The latest technology will be on show at The Fitzwilliam Museum this summer in a three-week trial of visitor information systems. The Museum is offering information about its collections through two different systems: state-of-the-art digital audio guides and pioneering wireless computing technology. Visitors will be encouraged to try out both systems and pass comment on their respective merits.
Gene hunters track the horse
22 July 2002Scientists have shed new light on the origins of the domestic horse. After analysing DNA samples from both ancient and modern horses, researchers have concluded that contemporary horses do not have a single ancestry, but were probably domesticated from several distinct ancestral populations.
Cambridge physicist is streets ahead
17 July 2002The University has honoured one of its most famous physicists, by giving his name to an avenue at the new science and technology campus on West Cambridge.
Superconducting cameras to photograph the Big Bang
15 July 2002Major scientific advances, such as studying the very earliest moments of the Big Bang, finding galaxies beyond the edge of the currently observable universe, creating the next generation of x-ray astronomy satellites and sub-cellular imaging of DNA and other biological materials are all now a step closer
Europe - the bigger picture
12 July 2002The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) at Cambridge last week held a conference which considered the complex legal aspects of one of the most dramatic current developments in geopolitics - EU enlargement.
University and BBC to collaborate on language courses
10 July 2002BBC Worldwide is working with the University of Cambridge on a range of new-generation foreign language courses. The agreement will result in the launch of a series of multi-media language courses over the next five years.
Making light of gravity
08 July 2002Supermassive black holes and gamma-ray bursts will be under discussion this week at a conference to celebrate the contribution of Professor Sir Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal, to the field of theoretical astrophysics.
Government Minister Gives Keynote Speech
05 July 2002The Right Honourable Patricia Hewitt MP, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, has today (5 July 2002), used a major speech at Cambridge University’s Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) to talk about corporate law reform in the UK.
