Testing Sing Smash

Sing for the win

22 July 2012

A new app game developed by a Cambridge student challenges people to sing the right note at the right time in order to smash down...

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The traditional image of Neanderthals as gritty people who spent most of their time out hunting might not be entirely accurate, according to a new study revealing that they may have had to devote hours to daily subsistence tasks instead.

Caveman about the house

19 July 2012

The traditional image of Neanderthals as gritty people who spent most of their time out hunting might not be entirely accurate, according to a new...

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Dr Robin Hesketh signing copies of his book in Peterborough

Twists in a tale

16 July 2012

Inside every scientist is a writer struggling to get out – or is there? Dr Robin Hesketh, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry, describes...

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Robert Macfarlane on Orford Ness in Suffolk

Weather-washed, tide-turned

14 July 2012

When Cambridge academic and writer Dr Robert Macfarlane was asked to write a libretto for a performance celebrating the extraordinary landscape of Orford Ness, he...

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The Uffington white horse marks an area of open grassland that has been subject to common rights of pasture for over 3,000 years

Common people

10 July 2012

It’s not a nice cup of tea, an insistence on orderly queuing, or even losing bravely. Cambridge archaeologist Dr Susan Oosthuizen will argue at a...

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