Orchestrating brain activity
01 February 2008New research in Cambridge is deciphering neural control signals that create the right brain state for the right situation.
In search of lost memories
01 February 2008‘I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. […] And suddenly the memory...
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.
Putting metabolism on the eco-map
01 February 2008One of the latest technologies to emerge - metabolomics - is being used to create a snapshot of how environmental chemicals affect living organisms.
Great expectations in pregnancy research
01 February 2008Most pregnancies develop normally but when complications arise they can have devastating effects. Two recent initiatives in Cambridge hope to deliver a new understanding of...
Proactive IP analysis: helping commercialisation not to (micro)drop out of sight
01 February 2008An innovative new project spearheaded by Cambridge Enterprise Ltd and researchers in the Department of Chemistry is taking a proactive approach to intellectual property (IP)...
A campaign of silent resistance
01 February 2008A fascinating study of wartime artefacts is uncovering a story of symbolic resistance and creative necessity in the Channel Islands 60 years ago.
Rebellion, repression, retribution
01 February 2008John Morrill explores one of the most extraordinary and least understood aspects of Anglo-Irish history - the rebellion of 1641.
Greek tragedy: setting the stage today
01 February 2008With the curtains just closed on the 40th Cambridge Greek Play since the 1880s, Greek classicist Simon Goldhill reflects on how this creative genre still...