Fashioning the value chain
01 January 2009Changes in the clothing industry have fashioned a new look for how manufacturing and retail is managed globally.
Freeze Frame: through the eyes of the polar explorers
01 January 2009An ambitious project is making accessible some of the most important visual resources for research into international polar exploration.
Portus Project: bringing to life Trajan’s legacy
01 January 2009Excavation and geophysical survey are uncovering the secrets of an exceptionally diverse Imperial Roman landscape.
Iridescence enables bees to view flowers in different colours
23 December 2008Bees see some flowers in multicolour because of previously unknown iridescence of the petals, usually invisible to the human eye, researchers from the University of...
Culture under threat
11 December 2008The idea of culture is becoming synonymous with conflict and polarisation - and in the process putting some of the world's most precious heritage sites at...
Key to regulation of puberty discovered
11 December 2008A team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and the University of Cukurova in Turkey has taken a major step to understanding how the...
Type 1 diabetes and coeliac disease linked
10 December 2008Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes and coeliac disease appear to share a common genetic origin, scientists at the University of Cambridge and Barts and The London...
Healing rifts in a broad Church
05 December 2008A new guide which shows Christian leaders how to work through their differences without becoming embroiled in long-term disputes has been released.
Teds in space – One small step for bears, a giant leap for Cambridge outreach
04 December 2008A team of students from the University of Cambridge sent four teddy-bears into space this week as part of an initiative to engage local schoolchildren...
Campus radicalism fears too extreme?
03 December 2008British Universities are not hotbeds of Islamic radicalism, despite fears about the rise of "campus extremism", a new study has found.