Sleeping sickness by stealth
04 February 2013New research is helping to unveil how the parasite that causes sleeping sickness uses stealth tactics to escape detection by the human immune system.
A new chapter opens in the study of the Assyrian empire
30 January 2013The first ever conference to focus on the provincial archaeology of the Assyrian empire took place at Cambridge University last month.
CASTEP achieves $30 million in sales
24 January 2013A software tool which uses quantum mechanics to allow designers to predict the properties of materials has reached the commercial milestone of $30 million in
The lost library of Eleonora Duse
23 January 2013How her personal library informed the phenomenal talent of the Italian actress Eleonora Duse is revealed in a newly-published book that catalogues the Duse C
Potted histories
23 January 2013Artist and writer Edmund de Waal – known for his work in porcelain as well as his best-selling memoir 'The Hare with the Amber Eyes' - will be giving a publi
Smarter infrastructure
10 January 2013A team from the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction has developed a mechanical amplifier which converts ambient vibrations into electricity more
The world inside a Spanish globe
28 December 2012Study of a mysterious 100-year-old interactive toy – perhaps the Wikipedia of its day – is painting a vivid picture of Spain’s path into the modern world.
Making the cloth that binds us: spinning, weaving and island identity
10 November 2012Ben Cartwright, a member of Cambridge’s Material Culture Lab, is an archaeologist whose research focuses on the ways in which the crafts of spinning and weav