Fantastic Mr. Dahl
07 September 2011To mark Roald Dahl Day on September 13th and the 50th anniversary of James And The Giant Peach, Professor Maria Nikolajeva explains why he remains...
Natural born killers
07 September 2011Newly hatched chicks of African honeyguide birds bite to death their foster siblings to eliminate competition.
Media models for the digital age
06 September 2011The headlines don’t look too good for newspapers. With falling readership and growing competition from the Internet, newspapers are questioning how and whether they can...
Death by monoculture
02 September 2011Having just returned from a year spent documenting the language and culture of the remote Inughuit community of north-western Greenland, Dr Stephen Leonard describes how...
Inside Britain’s biggest Iron Age fortress
01 September 2011A major excavation at Britain’s biggest Iron Age hill-fort has begun in Somerset, in the hope that it will at last enable historians to explain...
Food security: your questions answered
31 August 2011Over the past month, the University of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century – how...
Professor Lawrence Sherman awarded Benjamin Franklin Medal
31 August 2011The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London will award the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Medal to the Wolfson...
Graphene goes plasmonic
30 August 2011Researchers have discovered a crucial recipe for improving the characteristics of graphene devices for use as photodetectors in the next generation of pholtovoltaic devices for...
A brighter forecast for weather-beaten Britain?
22 August 2011Ever headed out for the day expecting bright sunshine, only to end up getting soaked in a downpour instead? If you’re reading this in the...
Placing water into the picture for climate change
22 August 2011As World Water Week, an annual week-long global conference on water provision and sustainability, begins in Stockholm, Dr Douglas Crawford-Brown explains how the world needs...