Endangered languages database launched online
10 January 2011An open database of endangered languages has been launched by researchers in the hope of creating a free, online portal that will give people access...
New Cambridge research unit to help encourage healthier habits
10 January 2011A new research unit based at the University of Cambridge will help inform the Government’s policy making on behaviour and health by investigating the best...
Research lays foundation for new era of electronics
10 January 2011Physicists from the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, the University of Cambridge and other institutes have successfully developed technology to enable the control and detection of spin...
Expanded support programme will boost growth in Eastern region
10 January 2011A new enterprise and innovation programme will enable businesses and jobs to be created across the Eastern region, it has been announced.
Cambridge Ideas - The Emotional Computer
10 January 2011Cambridge University film provides a glimpse of how robots and humans could interact in the future.
Ancient Bible fragments reveal a forgotten history
10 January 2011New research has uncovered a forgotten chapter in the history of the Bible, offering a rare glimpse of Byzantine Jewish life and culture.
Addiction treatment – genes can play a part
04 January 2011Imagine a one-off cure for drug addiction or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) instead of today’s life-long therapy regimes.
Looking into the brain
04 January 2011The Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre is a unique venture that brings together scientists and doctors from Cambridge University and Cambridge’s Addenbrookes Hospital for the development...
A move towards understanding
04 January 2011Professor Daniel Wolpert at Cambridge’s Department of Engineering has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Programme Grant to study the computations the brain performs when controlling...
Alzheimer’s: working with Drosophila
04 January 2011There are over 15 million people suffering from Alzheimer's disease globally and the current cost to the economy represents at least one per cent of...