Exoplanet hunter: in search of new Earths and life in the Universe
15 February 2016In 1995, in Geneva, PhD student Didier Queloz discovered a planet orbiting another sun – something that astronomers had predicted, but never found. Today he...
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In 1995, in Geneva, PhD student Didier Queloz discovered a planet orbiting another sun – something that astronomers had predicted, but never found. Today he...
An approved anti-cancer drug successfully targets the first step in the toxic chain reaction that leads to Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting that treatments may be found...
New window on the universe is opened with the observation of gravitational waves – ripples in spacetime – caused by the collision of two black...
Almost all of our genes may be influenced by the food we eat, according to new research published in the journal Nature Microbiology. The study,...
Have you lost your house keys recently? If so, you probably applied a spot of logical thinking. You looked first in the most obvious places...
In her debut book, Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson (Faculty of English) shows how deeply the Christian virtue of chastity was embedded into the culture of...
John Pollard (Trinity Hall) discusses the relationship between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches, and what the meeting between their two leaders may hold.
Cambridge researchers are studying what makes a brain efficient and how that affects behaviour in insects.
The largest quantitative study of howling, and first to use machine learning, defines different howl types and finds that wolves use these types more or...
How does the brain make connections, and how does it maintain them? Cambridge neuroscientists and mathematicians are using a variety of techniques to understand how...