British consumers complicit in forty-year ‘healthy eating’ failure, new study suggests
01 Jul 2021‘Healthy eating’ campaigns have largely failed in Britain for the last four decades because consumers have adapted confusing advice, and incorporated...
The power of touch
17 Jun 2021As a major Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition explores human touch through 4,000 years of art, Cambridge researchers explain why this sense is so...
Britain's first colonial anthropology experiment revealed
12 Jun 2021A new exhibition at MAA examines the pioneering ethnographic archive assembled by Britain’s first colonial anthropologist, Cambridge alumnus...
Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed a plague of bunions in medieval Britain
11 Jun 2021Researchers analysing skeletal remains in Cambridge find a dramatic increase in ‘hallux valgus’ around the time that pointed shoes became de rigueur...
Epic dictionary re-defines Ancient Greek including the words which made the Victorians blush
27 May 2021For 23 years a team from Cambridge’s Faculty of Classics has scoured Ancient Greek literature for meanings to complete the Cambridge Greek Lexicon ...
Philosopher’s thumbs-down to social media ‘likes’ gets award thumbs-up from Royal Institute
12 May 2021The Royal Institute of Philosophy has awarded (jointly) its 2021 essay prize to a University of Cambridge researcher for the first philosophical...
Bamboo bats... Howzat?!
10 May 2021Cricket bats should be made from bamboo rather than traditional willow, say researchers from Cambridge’s Centre for Natural Material Innovation...
Cancer rates in medieval Britain were around ten times higher than previously thought, study suggests
30 Apr 2021CT scanning used to uncover remnants of malignancy hidden inside medieval bones provides new insight into cancer prevalence in a pre-industrial world.
The researcher finding inspiration for the planet’s future in Latin American art
23 Mar 2021Joanna Page has been exploring how work by Latin American artists can help to bring humanity back into a relationship with nature and give us hope...
Medieval ‘birthing girdle’ parchment was worn during labour, study suggests
10 Mar 2021Scientists have used emerging proteomic techniques to find traces of ancient vaginal fluid, honey and milk on a rare manuscript from the late 15th...
Magdalene College discovers a treasure trove of women’s intellectual history
08 Mar 2021The collection comprises 47 books and pamphlets owned and annotated by the philosopher Mary Astell (1666–1731), viewed by many as “the first English...
Historian wins major journalism award for Indigenous land project
25 Feb 2021Dr Robert Lee, University lecturer in American History, has been awarded a George Polk Award, one of the most prestigious in journalism, for his...