A work of art has many lives
20 November 2012Eminent art historian and former director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, Philippe de Montebello will this week give two lectures that explore the multiple lives...
First randomised controlled trial to show spinal cord regeneration in dogs
19 November 2012Researchers have shown it is possible to restore co-ordinated limb movement in dogs with severe spinal cord injury (SCI).
Awareness could eliminate inequalities in cancer diagnoses
13 November 2012Each year 5,600 patients are diagnosed with cancer at a late stage because of inequalities. Study underlines importance of awareness campaigns.
Supersymmetry squeezed as LHC spots ultra rare particle decay
13 November 2012Cambridge scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, have spotted one of the rarest particle decays ever seen in nature.
Final letters mark centenary of Scott’s last march
12 November 2012A new collection of the last letters of Captain Scott and the Pole Party has been released to mark the centenary of the discovery of...
Making the cloth that binds us: spinning, weaving and island identity
10 November 2012Ben Cartwright, a member of Cambridge’s Material Culture Lab, is an archaeologist whose research focuses on the ways in which the crafts of spinning and...
Keynes comes home to Cambridge
08 November 2012A five-year project to publish the collected works of pioneering British economist John Maynard Keynes, is today unveiled by Cambridge University Press.
Body, soul and gold: quests for perfection in English alchemy
08 November 2012From the elixirs of legend to transmutation of base metals into gold, medieval medical practice and social mobility were steeped in alchemy.
The life of borders: where China and Russia meet
06 November 2012A new project based in Cambridge’s Division of Social Anthropology is looking at interactions between China, Mongolia and Russia at the point where these nations...
Identity, trial and retribution: East Asia after World War II
05 November 2012A five-year research project will examine East Asia’s emergence and struggle for self-definition after the fall of the Japanese Empire.