Leading the battle to protect the Amazon
09 January 2013A graduate of Cambridge’s fledgling MPhil in Conservation Leadership returned last month to speak to current students about his vital work to protect the Amazon...
Botanic Garden names new Director
09 January 2013Dr Beverley Glover has been named as the new Director of Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Dr Glover will take up the post, and the associated...
The remarkable notebook of a 19th-century naturalist
09 January 2013A notebook recording the fauna of Cambridgeshire observed and collected by the Reverend Leonard Jenyns between 1820 and 1849 has been published in full for...
How sperm swim near surfaces
08 January 2013Using high-speed microscopic imaging, Professor Raymond Goldstein's group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics has demonstrated how the interactions of microbes such...
Microswimmers hit the wall
07 January 2013New research reveals what happens when swimming cells such as spermatozoa and algae hit a solid wall, and has implications for applications in diagnostics and...
Unlocking nature’s quantum engineering for efficient solar energy
06 January 2013Quantum scale photosynthesis in biological systems which inhabit extreme environments could hold key to new designs for solar energy and nanoscale devices.
Can your phone double up as your life-coach?
29 December 2012Researchers are developing a smartphone platform that enables careful monitoring of lifestyle to pinpoint and help avert triggers for stress and negative emotion.
The world inside a Spanish globe
28 December 2012Study of a mysterious 100-year-old interactive toy – perhaps the Wikipedia of its day – is painting a vivid picture of Spain’s path into the...
Having a Polar Christmas
25 December 2012With Christmas upon us, Cambridge historian Dr Shane McCorristine and geographer and psychologist Dr Jane S.P. Mocellin take us back to the heroic age of...
Lethal weapon: bacteria’s high-risk suicide strategy
24 December 2012New research shows how some bacterial cells keep a ‘suicide complex’ ready to hand at all times.