Opinion: Speaking in tongues: the many benefits of bilingualism
04 November 2015Dr Teresa Parodi (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) discusses the linguistic, social and cognitive advantages of speaking more than one language.
‘Blitz spirit’ needed to adapt to climate change, engineer warns
03 November 2015Today's engineers will need the kind of drive and determination shown by the great wartime innovators such as Sir Barnes Wallis and Sir Frank Whittle if they are to respond effectively to climate change, University of Cambridge Reader in Engineering Dr Hugh Hunt will tell the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Ketchup and traffic jams: the maths of soft matter
03 November 2015The class of materials known as soft matter – which includes everything from mayonnaise to molten plastic – is the subject of the inaugural lecture by Michael Cates, Cambridge’s Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
Opinion: Girls can have it all: how to stop the damaging gender stereotyping in schools
03 November 2015Professor Dame Athene Donald (Cavendish Laboratory) discusses actions that schools can take to eradicate unnecessary gender stereotyping.
Study of half a million people reveals sex and job predict how many autistic traits you have
03 November 2015Measuring autistic traits in just under half a million people reveals that your sex, and whether you work in a STEM (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) job, predict how many autistic traits you have, according to new research published in the journal PLOS ONE.
First evidence of ‘ghost particles’
02 November 2015Major international collaboration has seen its first neutrinos – so-called ‘ghost particles’ – in the experiment’s newly built detector.
Opinion: ‘Difficult’ Latin risks remaining a qualification for elite pupils
02 November 2015Francesca Middleton (Faculty of Classics) discusses the reform of GCSEs and Latin's reputation as an academically demanding subject.
Opinion: How free are we really?
30 October 2015Priyamvada Gopal (Faculty of English) discusses freedom as a practice rather than a value to be worshipped.
Mirage maker
30 October 2015Aditya Sadhanala wanders over to the wall, turns a pulley, and a wooden box about a metre squared swings up and away. Below it gleams an array of carefully positioned lasers, deflectors and sensors surrounding a piece of glass no bigger than a contact lens. He flips a switch and creates a ‘mirage’.
Breaking the mould: Untangling the jelly-like properties of diseased proteins
29 October 2015Scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified a new property of essential proteins which, when it malfunctions, can cause the build up, or ‘aggregation’, of misshaped proteins and lead to serious diseases.
