Music of kindness: playing together strengthens empathy in children
13 June 2012A year-long study on childrens' music-making indicates that playing music in groups on a regular basis greatly improves a child’s ability to empathise with others.
A safer route to a nuclear future?
12 June 2012By using thorium instead of uranium as fuel, nuclear power could be safer and more sustainable, according to new research.
Beauty and despair
11 June 2012A high level inquiry reported last month that more than half of the British public has a negative body image. Cambridge academic Andy Martin reflects...
Live performance
08 June 2012Jennifer Wallace took part in the Cambridge series at this year's Hay Festival and spoke on a panel on whether tragedy is the perfect form...
Falklands/Malvinas: A national cause
07 June 2012Thirty years after it ended, the Falklands/Malvinas War still casts a long shadow over the lives of many Argentinians. A conference marking the anniversary next...
Everything we think we know – and know we don’t know – about cancer
06 June 2012A book written for the general reader, Betrayed by Nature: The War on Cancer by Dr Robin Hesketh, sets out in plain English what goes...
Solved: two of the historic riddles of horse racing
02 June 2012The identity of the winner of the 1880 Epsom Derby – the classic race to be run today - was famously disputed. Now analysis of...
“Echo” of light augurs new era in study of black holes
31 May 2012A long-sought “echo” of light that promises to reveal more about supersized black holes in distant galaxies has been identified by an international team of...
Cambridge academics head for Hay
31 May 2012Cambridge is fielding a series of talks and debates by leading academics on a range of global challenges at this year's Hay literary Festival.
Locked in combat: two French thinkers slog it out
31 May 2012“Hell is other people,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre. His rival on the stage of occupied and post-war Paris was Albert Camus (“I am the world”). The...