Mim Bower

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, H is for...

The identity of the winner of the 1880 Epsom Derby – the classic race to be run today - was famously disputed. Now analysis of DNA from the bones of...

Research by a team of scientists suggests that a variant of the so-called speed gene found in top racehorses can be traced back to a single British...