“Nudity does not liberate me and I do not need saving”
26 July 2013When radical feminists took their cause from Europe to North Africa, the outcome was a deepening of the divides they sought to break down. Social...
Want to stick with your diet? Better have someone hide the chocolate
25 July 2013Study indicates that removing a temptation is more effective than relying on willpower alone.
Much ado about babies
23 July 2013The management of childbirth and care of newborns have always been hotly-debated topics. PhD candidate Leah Astbury looks at narratives of reproduction in the 16th...
We ask the experts: will robots take over the world?
19 July 2013Robots can do a lot for us: they can explore space or they can cut our toenails. But do advances in robotics and artificial intelligence...
The longitude problem: 300-year-old archive opened to the world
18 July 2013It was the conundrum that baffled some of the greatest and most eccentric experts of the 18th century - and captivated the British public during...
Family bonds: how does surrogacy impact on relationships?
08 July 2013Preliminary results from a pioneering study at Cambridge University paint a positive picture of the relationships formed between surrogates and the families they help to...
New and under the sun
05 July 2013A group of Cambridge students are hoping that their game-changing design of solar car will make them the first British winners of the World Solar...
Bovril: a very beefy (and British) love affair
05 July 2013The makers of the beef extract called Bovril were pioneers in the dark arts of marketing. Speaking tomorrow at the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery,...
Was the dawn of man among trees in the cradle of disease?
04 July 2013A student-led conference to be webcast live will ask, in light of recent research, whether the story of human origin is radically different from...
Origins of the Afro Comb: 6,000 years of culture, politics and identity
02 July 2013The 6,000-year history of the Afro Comb, its extraordinary impact on cultures worldwide, and community stories relating to hair today are being explored in a new exhibition...