On the trail of King John before (and after) the signing of Magna Carta
13 June 2015King John, that most restless of monarchs, is back in the spotlight as the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta approaches. For the...
Novel Thoughts #2: Clare Bryant on AS Byatt’s Possession
12 June 2015New film series Novel Thoughts reveals the reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists and peeks inside the covers of the books that have played a...
Images of rare Magna Carta find go online
12 June 2015Images of a rare copy of Magna Carta at St John's College are being made available to coincide with the document's 800th anniversary.
‘Sunscreen’ layer detected on distant planet
12 June 2015On a blazing-hot exoplanet known as WASP-33b, a team of astronomers including researchers from the University of Cambridge has detected a stratosphere, one of the...
New NICE thresholds could miss up to 4,000 women per year at risk from diabetes in pregnancy
12 June 2015The new threshold for diabetes in pregnancy recently introduced by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) misses a significant number of...
The price of a happy ending can be bad decision-making, say researchers
10 June 2015Research using gambling techniques shows that even very recent experiences carry a ‘temporal markdown’ so that those more immediate carry disproportionate weight in decision-making, meaning...
Cuckoos mimic 'harmless' species as a disguise to infiltrate host nests
10 June 2015First time ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ mimicry has been seen in birds. Host birds have evolved a general counter-strategy in which they defend against all...
Counting on sheep
10 June 2015Sheep are smarter than we might think, with brains surprisingly similar to ours. These similarities are helping researchers to study a devastating and incurable infant...
Lord Byron and the bears beneath Cambridge
10 June 2015The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, B is for Bear – found roaming Cambridgeshire 120,000 years ago,...
The Big Dating Game
09 June 2015When is a rare disease not a rare disease? The answer: when big data gets involved. An ambitious new research project aims to show patients...