Dish Life: a Cambridge Shorts film
21 November 2016Science is demanding as well as exciting. Dish Life, the final of four Cambridge Shorts films, compares the task of raising stem cells in the...
Talk with Your Hands: a Cambridge Shorts film
18 November 2016The capacity for language is what sets us apart from other animals. Talk with Your Hands, the third of four Cambridge Shorts films, explores the...
A BLUEPRINT for blood cells: Cambridge researchers play leading role in major release of epigenetic studies
17 November 2016Cambridge researchers have played a leading role in several studies released today looking at how variation in and potentially heritable changes to our DNA, known...
What can Pokémon Go teach the world of conservation?
16 November 2016The augmented reality game, designed for mobile devices, allows users to capture, battle and train virtual creatures called Pokémon that appear on screen as if...
Before race mattered: what archives tell us about early encounters in the French colonies
16 November 2016As Europe expanded its overseas colonies, fixed ideas of racial differences took hold. Historian Dr Mélanie Lamotte, whose forebears include a slave, is researching a...
Keeping patients safe in hospital
15 November 2016Healthcare is a complex beast and too often problems arise that can put patients’ health – and in some cases, lives – at risk. A...
Inability to safely store fat increases risk of diabetes and heart disease
14 November 2016A large-scale genetic study has provided strong evidence that the development of insulin resistance – a risk factor for type 2 diabetes and heart attacks...
Man on a mission to beat cancer
14 November 2016Thirty years ago, Professor Richard Gilbertson pledged to implement a 15 per cent reduction in mortality from children’s brain cancer. This is the story of what happened...
Man v fish in the Amazon rainforest
11 November 2016The Enawenê-nawê people of the Amazon rainforest make beautifully engineered fishing dams. Living alongside this indigenous community, Dr Chloe Nahum-Claudel observed how the act of...
World’s 'smallest magnifying glass' makes it possible to see individual chemical bonds between atoms
10 November 2016Using the strange properties of tiny particles of gold, researchers have concentrated light down smaller than a single atom, letting them look at individual chemical...