Unlocking innovation in the supply chain
26 April 2016Jinchen Hou from the Institute for Manufacturing comments on how members of complex supply chains can form alliances, in order to unlock the innovation that’s...
Call to arms: how lessons from history could reduce the ‘immunisation gap’
25 April 2016A rise in the number of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases has highlighted the growing trend for parents not to have their child vaccinated. Could the...
First performance in 1,000 years: ‘lost’ songs from the Middle Ages are brought back to life
23 April 2016An ancient song repertory will be heard for the first time in 1,000 years this week after being ‘reconstructed’ by a Cambridge researcher and a...
Opinion: There’s no such thing as a natural-born gambler
22 April 2016Anthony Pickles (Division of Social Anthropology) discusses why gambling is a relatively modern invention.
Opinion: The man who taught infinity: how GH Hardy tamed Srinivasa Ramanujan’s genius
22 April 2016Béla Bollobás (Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) discusses the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan and the influence of his tutor Godfrey Harold Hardy.
UK’s top student hackers compete for cyber security
22 April 2016Students from the UK’s top cyber security universities will compete in Cambridge this weekend, in part to address the country’s looming cyber security skills gap.
Reducing number of infectious malaria parasites in donated blood could help prevent transmission during transfusion
21 April 2016A technique for reducing the number of infectious malaria parasites in whole blood could significantly reduce the number of cases of transmission of malaria through...
Opinion: Genetics: what it is that makes you clever – and why it’s shrouded in controversy
21 April 2016Daphne Martschenko (Faculty of Education) discusses the concept of intelligence and the drive to identify and quantify it.
Æthelred the Unready, King of the English: 1,000 years of bad press
21 April 2016He was just a boy when he became King of the English and his reign was marked by repeated attacks by the Danes. Æthelred, who died...
Flexible hours 'controlled by management' cause stress and damage home lives of low-paid workers
20 April 2016Researcher Alex Wood calls on new DWP Minister Stephen Crabb to acknowledge distinction between flexible scheduling controlled by managers to maximise profit, damaging lives of...