Paranoid Android? Get connected to a new study…
17 June 2011More than 1,000 people around the world have signed up to take part in the biggest ever public study of Android phone usage.
CSaP Policy Fellowships Programme extended
16 June 2011The Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) announces plans to scale up a unique programme that bridges policy and academia.
Living in the landscape
15 June 2011Six months after she set forth on an epic tour of Iceland in a Land Rover ambulance on the trail of the country’s medieval sagas,...
Cambridge announces new fund for arts, humanities and social sciences research
14 June 2011Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz has announced the creation of a £300,000 fund to be awarded to Cambridge University researchers in the arts, humanities and...
Ash clouds? You ain't seen nothing yet...
13 June 2011The recent volcanic eruptions in Iceland upset airline bosses and caused a lot of fuss, but they were trivial by comparison with what could happen...
New degree to help protect historic buildings
10 June 2011As English Heritage launches its first ever National Heritage Protection Plan, a new part-time Master’s degree at the University of Cambridge is set to make...
Island of broken figurines
10 June 2011Why were Bronze Age figurines smashed, transported and buried in shallow pits on the Aegean island of Keros? New research sheds light on a 4,500-year-old...
Professor Nicholas Thomas wins the Wolfson History Prize for ‘Islanders’
08 June 2011Nicholas Thomas, Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and professor of historical anthropology, has been awarded the prestigious Wolfson History Prize for his...
Innovating sustainable housing design
06 June 2011A new building initiative aims to innovate sustainable housing design for the developing world.
Medal for groundbreaking architectural design
06 June 2011The Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre, Mapungubwe, South Africa has won the Silver Medal in the International Prize for Sustainable Architecture.