A real piece of work
16 June 2015In 2003, researchers embarked on a project to piece together a picture of changes in British working life over the course of 600 years. The...
Tool use is 'innate' in chimpanzees but not bonobos, their closest evolutionary relative
16 June 2015First evidence for a species difference in the innate predisposition for tool use in our closest evolutionary cousins could provide insight into how humans became...
Novel Thoughts #3: Karen Yu on George Lucas' Star Wars
15 June 2015New film series Novel Thoughts reveals the reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists and peeks inside the covers of the books that have played a...
Mining for Corruption
15 June 2015Researchers have developed a new technique that trawls the enormous amounts of public procurement data now available across the EU to highlight unscrupulous uses of...
On the trail of King John before (and after) the signing of Magna Carta
13 June 2015King John, that most restless of monarchs, is back in the spotlight as the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta approaches. For the...
Novel Thoughts #2: Clare Bryant on AS Byatt’s Possession
12 June 2015New film series Novel Thoughts reveals the reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists and peeks inside the covers of the books that have played a...
‘Sunscreen’ layer detected on distant planet
12 June 2015On a blazing-hot exoplanet known as WASP-33b, a team of astronomers including researchers from the University of Cambridge has detected a stratosphere, one of the...
Images of rare Magna Carta find go online
12 June 2015Images of a rare copy of Magna Carta at St John's College are being made available to coincide with the document's 800th anniversary.
New NICE thresholds could miss up to 4,000 women per year at risk from diabetes in pregnancy
12 June 2015The new threshold for diabetes in pregnancy recently introduced by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) misses a significant number of...
The price of a happy ending can be bad decision-making, say researchers
10 June 2015Research using gambling techniques shows that even very recent experiences carry a ‘temporal markdown’ so that those more immediate carry disproportionate weight in decision-making, meaning...