Placenta and hormone levels in the womb may have been key driver in human evolution
20 June 2025The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the...
Learning to thrive in diverse African habitats allowed early humans to spread across the world
18 June 2025Before the ‘Out of Africa’ migration that led our ancestors into Eurasia and beyond, human populations learned to adapt to new and challenging habitats including...
The language of justice
18 June 2025Meet Bhumika Billa: the legal scholar with a poet’s love of language. Her Information Theory of Law pushes our legal systems towards justice and fairness.
Cambridge researchers awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council
17 June 2025Eleven senior researchers at the University of Cambridge have been awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council – the highest number of grants awarded...
Evolution made us cheats, now free-riders run the world and we need to change, new book warns
17 June 2025To save democracy and solve the world's biggest challenges, we need to get better at spotting and exposing people who exploit human cooperation for personal...
Innovation and enterprise: lessons from the frontline
16 June 2025The new head of Cambridge Enterprise reflects on innovation in Cambridge and what he's learnt from a career spent founding and building successful life science...
Pangolins in West Africa hunted for food rather than for illicit scales trade
13 June 2025Research finds that appetite for bushmeat – rather than the black market for scales to use in traditional Chinese medicine – may be driving West Africa’s illegal hunting of...
How ‘supergenes’ help fish evolve into new species
12 June 2025Researchers have found that chunks of ‘flipped’ DNA can help fish quickly adapt to new habitats and evolve into new species, acting as evolutionary ‘superchargers’.
Cambridge scholar helps bring Ukraine’s pain and power to the stage in critically acclaimed creative collaboration
12 June 2025The Reckoning is an intimate work of documentary theatre composed from a verified archive of witness testimonies chronicling Russia’s war of aggression. It is now...
Single-material electronic skin gives robots the human touch
11 June 2025Scientists have developed a low-cost, durable, highly-sensitive robotic ‘skin’ that can be added to robotic hands like a glove, enabling robots to detect information about...