Using high-speed cinematography, scientists at Cambridge University have discovered that individual algal cells can regulate the beating of their flagella in and out of synchrony in a manner that controls their swimming trajectories. Their research was published on the 24th July in the journal Science.
Forty 15 year olds from deprived areas in Greater London have completed their first year on a unique maths course which aims to encourage their passion for the subject.
Students from the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) have just returned from a fact-finding tour of India.
They say that money can’t buy it, but a new exhibition tracing the history of Russian weddings reveals how and why many of us are still putting a hefty price tag on happiness.
Furious competition between social networking sites is compromising the protection of users’ data, a Cambridge University study has concluded.
The University played host this week to a group of eminent Sikhs from Punjab, who gathered to mark the signing of a scholarship agreement between the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust.
Staff and students from the University of Cambridge will be helping to bring a little bit of science to the Secret Garden Party festival in Cambridgeshire this weekend.
Professor Graham Stanton, Emeritus Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, died on 18 July 2009 aged 69.
The University will carry out tree surgery on the 150 year-old horse chestnut outside King’s College Chapel on King’s Parade next week to safeguard its future.
A Topping Out ceremony at West Cambridge has marked the completion of the main structure of the £15.7m mixed-use development for Turnstone Estates and the University of Cambridge.
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