The new police knowledge
28 May 2012Professor Lawrence Sherman will be talking about the latest research into predicting, preventing and detecting crime as part of the Cambridge series at this year's...
Drugs, Deceptions & Disasters
28 May 2012Cambridge Infectious Diseases will hold its first annual invited lecture on 31 May, 2011.
Wined and defined
28 May 2012At a lecture tomorrow, Professor Steven Shapin will decant some of the terminology of wine-tasting and look at the ways in which our relationship with...
Physical sciences illuminate neurodegenerative diseases
28 May 2012What do physicists, chemists, mathematicians and biologists have in common? One of the answers at Cambridge is a shared interest in unravelling the processes behind...
History stories: lessons on the national curriculum
26 May 2012The teaching of history in schools is vitally important to how we see ourselves, and our stories, says Dr Nora Berend, who argues for a...
Nudging consumers towards better health
25 May 2012It seems at once the simplest and most complex of health problems: by eating healthily, not smoking, being more active and cutting down on alcohol,...
Circadian rhythms protein found in different types of living organisms
25 May 2012Research suggests that circadian clocks shared a common ancestor.
'Everything, everywhere, ever’ – a new door opens on the history of humanity
24 May 2012The history of humanity, from our earliest ancestors to today’s indigenous people spread across the globe, is being retold as a Cambridge University museum reopens...
Seahorses and the "onion world"
24 May 2012Dr Amanda Vincent – one of the world’s leading experts on seahorses and their relatives – is spending a year at Cambridge’s Department of Geography...
3D model reveals how ancient creature got around
24 May 2012Early tetrapod primarily used front limbs to move and its back limbs for balance.