‘Sex, scandal and sermon’ in medieval Spain
08 February 2008A new study of the 14th-century narrative poem Libro de Buen Amor explores how its earthy tales of failed love are shaped by humour.
Gems of colour: pigments of the ‘Colourmen’
08 February 2008Dragon’s Blood, Purple of Cassius and Scarlet Lake – all pigments concocted by the 19th-century 'Colourmen' of Winsor & Newton artists’ suppliers. Now, a painstaking...
Asking ‘are you awake?’ with brain imaging
08 February 2008Even though we might be able to hear someone speaking, our powers for understanding what is actually being said switch off as we go to...
Sunny times ahead for solar power
08 February 2008A new initiative funded by the Carbon Trust hopes to make solar power an affordable choice for homeowners within 10 years.
Egyptology in prisons
08 February 2008The project Accessing Virtual Egypt is breaking new ground in knowledge transfer between museums and prisons, with empowering results
Bringing together the Book of Kings
08 February 2008The Shahnama Project is building a powerful online resource that will stimulate research and interest in Persian cultural history.
The thinking hominid
01 February 2008The discovery in southern India of a well-preserved quarry dating from a million years ago is helping researchers to answer: how intelligent were our ancestors?
Can machines read?
01 February 2008Enabling computers to understand language might help users to overcome online information overload.
Orchestrating brain activity
01 February 2008New research in Cambridge is deciphering neural control signals that create the right brain state for the right situation.
Modelling uncertainty in the game of Go
01 February 2008Cambridge researchers have analysed millions of patterns of potential moves to model the uncertainty of play in the ancient game of Go.