New design points a path to the ‘ultimate’ battery
29 October 2015Researchers have successfully demonstrated how several of the problems impeding the practical development of the so-called ‘ultimate’ battery could be overcome.
Spiritual violence and the divine revolution of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
29 October 2015In 1879, a young Indian boy arrived in England from Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the state of Bengal, sent by his father to receive a British education. Aurobindo Ghosh showed enormous promise and would go on to receive a scholarship to study classics at King’s College, Cambridge.
Opinion: Can the EU keep the peace in Europe? Not a chance
28 October 2015Chris Bickerton (Department of Politics and International Relations) discusses the role of the European Union.
Phone for a doctor
28 October 2015Worried you might be at risk from diabetes? Check your phone: it might help stop you getting the disease. And if you already have diabetes? Your phone might even help you monitor your condition at home.
How snake bites could help prevent heart attacks
28 October 2015The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, V is for Venomous Snake: an animal that has long evoked fear and curiosity, but is revealing important clues for the development of treatments for some devastating conditions.
Saved from the Nazis in 1938: Schnitzler archive to remain in Cambridge
28 October 2015Saved from destruction by the Nazis and smuggled in secret to Cambridge, the rescue of author Arthur Schnitzler’s archive is as dramatic as any fiction he committed to paper.
Earthquake rocks Afghanistan and Pakistan – an area prone to magnitude 7 quakes
27 October 2015Professor Simon Redfern (Department of Earth Sciences) discusses the devastating earthquake that struck Afghanistan on October 26 and the geological triggers that caused it.
Entanglement at heart of 'two-for-one' fission in next-generation solar cells
26 October 2015The mechanism behind a process known as singlet fission, which could drive the development of highly efficient solar cells, has been directly observed by researchers for the first time.
Social yeast cells prefer to work with close relatives to make our beer, bread & wine
26 October 2015Baker’s yeast cells living together in communities help feed each other, but leave incomers from the same species to die from starvation, according to new research from the University of Cambridge.
Earthquakes without frontiers
26 October 2015The Alpine–Himalayan belt, which stretches from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, is one of the world’s most seismically active regions. Now, a combination of earth science, social science and education is being used to help the region become more resilient to earthquakes, protecting lives and property.
