'Votes for Prisoners? Democracy and the European Convention on Human Rights'
29 November 2012Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights holding that the UK's blanket ban on voting by convicted prisoners violates Article 3 of Protocol 1...
Mastering public policy
29 November 2012A new Master’s Programme in Public Policy, launching today by the University of Cambridge, will equip policy makers of tomorrow with the tools to make...
Scientists identify depression and anxiety biomarker in youths
28 November 2012Test could be used as an inexpensive screening tool to facilitate early intervention.
Low-mass planets make good neighbours for debris discs
27 November 2012Astronomers using the Herschel Space Observatory have detected massive debris discs around two nearby stars hosting low-mass planets. The discovery suggests that debris discs may...
Syria's Muslim Brotherhood looking to return from exile
26 November 2012The exiled Muslim Brotherhood in Syria is preparing to exploit the current crisis in the country to make its return, but is unlikely to link...
Humanity's last invention and our uncertain future
25 November 2012A philosopher, a scientist and a software engineer have come together to propose a new centre at Cambridge to address developments in human technologies that...
Circling the heavens: visual culture and the bird of paradise
24 November 2012As voyages of exploration opened up the world from the 15th century onwards, European culture delighted in encounters with exotic items. Dr José Ramón Marcaida,...
Who do you think you are?
23 November 2012Each year in the UK over a thousand children are conceived using donor tissue. Many parents find it hard to tell their children that they...
University to help uncover grass roots history
22 November 2012Heritage researchers collaborate with community groups to dig up the past and air Cambridge’s dirty laundry as part of Lottery-funded project.
Feeding seven billion
21 November 2012With the world’s population already estimated to be over seven billion and rising fast, the challenge of how to produce enough food has never been...