New perspectives on Latin America
17 March 2011At the Centre of Latin American Studies, interdisciplinary research is offering a new perspective on the creativity, challenges and lessons that can be learned from...
Conversations across continents
17 March 2011Each year, academic dialogue is enriched at the Centre of African Studies by the arrival of a group of African scholars who spend up to...
Where empires meet
17 March 2011How two ‘rising powers’ – China and Russia – interact across the border they share with resource-rich Mongolia is the focus of a network led...
What do drugs do to the brain?
17 March 2011Drug abuse is probably linked to an in-built tendency to act without thinking, as shown by studies of siblings of chronic stimulant users, a leading...
Children’s evidence cross-examined
16 March 2011Should young children be exposed to the traumatic experience of giving evidence in open court, or does the justice system need to change its approach?
Shear brain power - sheep smarter than previously believed
14 March 2011Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that sheep are more intelligent than previously believed.
Middle aged diabetics can die six years earlier
14 March 2011Having diabetes in mid-life may reduce a person’s life expectancy by an average of six years, according to a large, multinational study coordinated by the...
Happy children make happy adults
14 March 2011New research links well-being in adolescence with life satisfaction in adulthood.
Diabetes drug improves survival from life-threatening infectious disease
14 March 2011Scientists have identified a diabetes drug which halves the mortality rate of a deadly infectious disease found throughout Southeast Asia and Northern Australia.
Fair representation in Europe?
11 March 2011Until now, seats in the European Parliament have been allocated by political bargaining. A fairer way has been devised by an international panel of mathematicians,...