Making the Olympic Countdown a matter of maths and science
15 March 2011With 500 days to go to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the University of Cambridge is helping everyone to understand more about the maths and science of sport.
Coded Chimera
15 March 2011A new exhibition by the Sculptor Bruce Gernand will go on display at the University’s Museum of Zoology, as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.
Shear brain power - sheep smarter than previously believed
14 March 2011Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that sheep are more intelligent than previously believed.
Middle aged diabetics can die six years earlier
14 March 2011Having diabetes in mid-life may reduce a person’s life expectancy by an average of six years, according to a large, multinational study coordinated by the University of Cambridge.
Happy children make happy adults
14 March 2011New research links well-being in adolescence with life satisfaction in adulthood.
Diabetes drug improves survival from life-threatening infectious disease
14 March 2011Scientists have identified a diabetes drug which halves the mortality rate of a deadly infectious disease found throughout Southeast Asia and Northern Australia.
Fair representation in Europe?
11 March 2011Until now, seats in the European Parliament have been allocated by political bargaining. A fairer way has been devised by an international panel of mathematicians, as described in a report released by the University of Cambridge this week.
What does Twitter have to do with the human brain?
11 March 2011We like to think the human brain is special, something different from other brains and information processing systems, but a Cambridge professor is set to test that assumption – by conducting a live experiment using Twitter.
A very bumpy playing field
11 March 2011As the electronic clock purrs away the milliseconds to the opening of the 2012 London Olympic Games, a new book by a Cambridge University researcher looks at the controversies surrounding the training and performance of athletes over the last 130 years and reveals huge changes in attitudes towards what is fair play and what is cheating, what is natural and what is not.
The Science and Beauty of Nebulae
10 March 2011The birth and the death of the stars is the topic of this week’s Darwin Lecture.
