Biomarker for autism discovered
12 July 2011Research provides opportunity for identifying genes linked to autism.
Nature’s value to business
12 July 2011A programme convening business leaders and policy makers is helping to identify the value to business of nature – and the step changes needed to...
Modelling the root of crop disease
11 July 2011Mathematical modelling is an important weapon in the armoury against crop disease, as plant epidemiologists demonstrated when they turned their sights on root madness in...
Three from Cambridge elected as Fellows of The Royal Academy of Engineering
11 July 2011Fifty new Fellows have been elected members of The Royal Academy of Engineering at its Annual General Meeting on 11 July, a list that includes...
“Classics Question Time” to reveal enduring lessons from the ancient world
08 July 2011Latin-lovers, Greek fanatics and anyone with a passing interest in the ancient world will have a unique opportunity to put their questions to the experts...
Let's talk about sex!
07 July 2011The history of human reproduction – via its communication through the ages – is examined in a ground-breaking exhibition opening this week at Cambridge University...
Turbocharging a new Green Revolution
07 July 2011Plant scientists in Cambridge have embarked on ambitious plans to improve crop yields by solving one of the chief limitations of photosynthesis.
Merck-Serono Prize for Science and Literature and the Christopher Zeeman Medal
07 July 2011John D, Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, DAMTP, and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, has been awarded the 2011 Merck-Serono Prize for Science and...
Musical notes from Stalin’s prize-givers
07 July 2011The voices of the artistic elite of Stalin’s Soviet Union, among them Dmitri Shostakovich, are being heard afresh in a new comprehensive study of a...
Invigorating plants
06 July 2011Understanding how plants ‘silence’ invading viruses could hold the key to releasing their hidden potential.