Bronze Age stilt houses unearthed in East Anglian Fens
12 January 2016Large circular wooden houses built on stilts collapsed in a dramatic fire 3,000 years ago and plunged into a river, preserving their contents in astonishing...
Cocaine addiction: Scientists discover ‘back door’ into the brain
12 January 2016Individuals addicted to cocaine may have difficulty in controlling their addiction because of a previously-unknown ‘back door’ into the brain, circumventing their self-control, suggests a...
Global learning is needed to save carbon capture and storage from being abandoned
11 January 2016Governments should not be abandoning carbon capture and storage, argues a Cambridge researcher, as it is the only realistic way of dramatically reducing carbon emissions....
Banning trophy hunting could do more harm than good
11 January 2016Trophy hunting shouldn’t be banned, but instead it should be better regulated to ensure funds generated from permits are invested back into local conservation efforts,...
Do you say splinter, spool, spile or spell? English Dialects app tries to guess your regional accent
11 January 2016An app that tries to guess your regional accent based on your pronunciation of 26 words and colloquialisms will help Cambridge academics track the movement...
Opinion: Mysterious footprint fossils point to dancing dinosaur mating ritual
08 January 2016David Norman (Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences) discusses how palaeontologists can interpret fossil footprints to find clues as to whether dinosaurs performed dance-like mating rituals.
Roman toilets gave no clear health benefit, and Romanisation actually spread parasites
08 January 2016Archaeological evidence shows that intestinal parasites such as whipworm became increasingly common across Europe during the Roman Period, despite the apparent improvements the empire brought...
Opinion: What science can tell us about the ‘world’s largest sapphire’
06 January 2016Simon Redfern (Department of Earth Sciences) discusses how the "Star of Adam" sapphire was formed in the highlands of Sri Lanka.
Let’s go wild: how ancient communities resisted new farming practices
06 January 2016Analysis of grinding stones reveals that North African communities may have moved slowly and cautiously from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to more settled farming practices. Newly published...
Opinion: Why the Romans weren’t quite as clean as you might have thought
06 January 2016Piers Mitchell (Department of Biological Anthroplogy) discusses what Roman toilets did for the health of the population.