The Large Hadron Collider: entering uncharted territory
01 January 2009The world's most expensive scientific instrument will be ready for full experiments in 2009; Andy Parker describes Cambridge's role in constructing and using the machine...
Economic and Social Research Council
01 January 2009The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) supports research from across the social sciences, from sociology to anthropology, through to statistics, methods and computing.
The new geography of personality
01 January 2009Jason Rentfrow explains how analysis of over three-quarters of a million online surveys has been used to build a "map" of the USA.
Engaging with Inuit communities
01 January 2009At first glance, reasons for researching locations as different as the Arctic and Mexico are not self-evident. But comparison is at the core of Social...
New hopes for the nervous system: Parkinson's disease
01 January 2009The way a common virus hijacks the cell it infects could hold the clue to combating Parkinson's disease.
A novel way to model endometriosis
01 January 2009A recently patented invention holds promise for understanding a debilitating disease that affects two million women in the UK.
Iridescence enables bees to view flowers in different colours
23 December 2008Bees see some flowers in multicolour because of previously unknown iridescence of the petals, usually invisible to the human eye, researchers from the University of...
Key to regulation of puberty discovered
11 December 2008A team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and the University of Cukurova in Turkey has taken a major step to understanding how the...
Culture under threat
11 December 2008The idea of culture is becoming synonymous with conflict and polarisation - and in the process putting some of the world's most precious heritage sites at...
Type 1 diabetes and coeliac disease linked
10 December 2008Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes and coeliac disease appear to share a common genetic origin, scientists at the University of Cambridge and Barts and The London...