Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence
04 October 2011The Lacemaker, one of the great masterpieces of the 17th-century Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer, is to go on display in the UK for the first...
Scientists demonstrate potential new treatment for most common form of infant leukaemia
03 October 2011New drug could treat mixed-lineage leukaemia (MLL).
Prehistoric pre-school
30 September 2011Archaeological research reveals that 13,000 years before CBeebies hunter-gatherer children as young as three were creating art in deep, dark caves alongside their parents.
What makes a great political speech?
27 September 2011Cambridge Festival of Ideas debate to examine the changing nature of political speeches.
Cambridge Ideas - Memories Of Old Awake
26 September 2011Cambridge University academic, Dr Emily Lethbridge, is breathing new life and understanding into the centuries-old Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) during a unique year-long research trip.
...Professor Sir Mark Welland receives two distinguished awards by US government
26 September 2011Professor Sir Mark Welland, head of The Nanoscience Centre at Cambridge University and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence, has been awarded two...
Smartphone art
25 September 2011As mobile phone cameras improve, emerging forms of social media are basing themselves in ‘iPhoneography’. While social media is often held up as an example...
Children’s literature an escape from the adult world
24 September 2011A University of Cambridge academic is to suggest that grown-ups enjoy children’s classics because they are dissatisfied with life in the adult world.
Shift to services is vital for UK industry
23 September 2011Research reveals 12 steps for executives who want to follow a business model innovation approach to service provision.
Drug pushing in the New Europe
23 September 2011A new study reveals how drug reimbursement policy in Poland is leaving gaping loopholes for pharmaceutical firms to exploit, raising questions about other, post-communist, EU...