Opinion: Why are flexible computer screens taking so long to develop?
18 January 2016Stuart Higgins (Cavendish Laboratory) discusses the technology being developed to create flexible displays.
Ads for candy-flavoured e-cigarettes could encourage vaping among school children
18 January 2016Advertisements featuring e-cigarettes with flavours such as chocolate and bubble gum are more likely to attract school children to buy and try e-cigarettes than those featuring non-flavoured e-cigarettes, according to new research published in the journal Tobacco Control.
Genetic ‘paint box’ shuffled between butterfly species to create new wing patterns
15 January 2016Research finds independent genetic switches control different splotches of colour and pattern on Heliconius butterfly wings, and that these switches have been shared between species over millions of years, becoming “jumbled up” to create new and diverse wing displays.
University of Cambridge at the World Economic Forum 2016
15 January 2016The Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge is to lead a delegation of academics to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, in January 2016, to explore issues including carbon reduction technologies and how science and engineering can best address society's greatest challenges.
Brain waves could help predict how we respond to general anaesthetics
14 January 2016The complex pattern of ‘chatter’ between different areas of an individual’s brain while they are awake could help doctors better track and even predict their response to general anaesthesia – and better identify the amount of anaesthetic necessary – according to new research from the University of Cambridge.
John Maynard Keynes: great economist, poor currency trader
14 January 2016John Maynard Keynes struggled as a foreign-exchange trader, finds the first detailed study of the famous economist as currency speculator.
Secretary-General of the United Nations to receive Honorary Degree
13 January 2016University’s highest honour conferred for ‘humanitarian work, support for women’s rights and achievements in pursuit of global peace and security’.
High ozone levels in tropical Pacific caused by fires burning in Africa and Asia
13 January 2016Study indicates ‘biomass burning’ may play a larger role in climate change than previously realised.
Bronze Age stilt houses unearthed in East Anglian Fens
12 January 2016Large circular wooden houses built on stilts collapsed in a dramatic fire 3,000 years ago and plunged into a river, preserving their contents in astonishing detail. Archaeologists say the excavations have revealed the best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found in Britain.
Cocaine addiction: Scientists discover ‘back door’ into the brain
12 January 2016Individuals addicted to cocaine may have difficulty in controlling their addiction because of a previously-unknown ‘back door’ into the brain, circumventing their self-control, suggests a new study led by the University of Cambridge.
