How does your baby grow?
31 October 2011A study of infant growth, tracking 2,400 babies from gestation to the age of two, has provided data of unique depth – and is already...
The ethics of smart drugs
31 October 2011Professor Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge, has been researching cognitive enhancers for over a decade. Here she discusses the...
Oceans, climate change and Christianity: The Earth's story and God's story
30 October 2011Professor Meric Srokosz of the National Oceanography Centre will be speaking this week, Tuesday 01 November, at the next Faraday Institute seminar.
Politics and the future of the media under the spotlight in policy seminars
27 October 2011British politics, the media, and the deep distrust with which both are being treated following the phone-hacking scandal will form the subject of the latest...
'Endeavour' blazes across the Outback
27 October 2011The Cambridge University Solar Car Team (CUER) has completed 2011 Veolia World Solar Challenge.
Chiral metal surfaces may help to manufacture pharmaceuticals
26 October 2011Research provides insight into novel approach which could be used in pharmaceutical drug synthesis.
The politics of speechmaking
24 October 2011Modern politicians are too stuck in a 24/7 media bubble to make the kind of grand speeches associated with past leaders, a debate on political...
Belief and beyond
23 October 2011In a Festival of Ideas talk for the public this Tuesday, Cambridge University academic Dr David Lehmann will discuss the enduring power of fundamentalist strands...
Do Memorials Matter?
21 October 2011For the Festival of Ideas, Dr Dacia Viejo-Rose, a researcher on the CRIC research project, will discuss the unexpected impact and diverse use of memorials...
Will the English language ever die?
21 October 2011Imagine a world in which there is no difference between blue and black or green and blue. A world where there are hundreds of different...