Reprogrammed oestrogen binding linked to more aggressive breast cancer
05 January 2012Researchers have discovered how receptors for the female sex hormone oestrogen attach to a different part of the DNA in breast cancer patients who are...
'Extreme Sleepover #12’ – an equestrian adventure on the Mongolian steppes
02 January 2012In the latest report of the Extreme Sleepover series, undergraduate Robin Irvine explains how a fascination for the relationships between humans, horses and dogs took...
'Extreme Sleepover #11’ - moulins and meltwater on the Greenland ice sheet
01 January 2012In the eleventh of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, glaciologists Dr Ian Willis and Alison Banwell watch as a lake disappears before...
'Extreme Sleepover #6’ - drilling deep into geological history
27 December 2011In the sixth in a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, earth scientist Dr Marian Holness investigates the secrets locked into an ancient magma...
'Extreme Sleepover #4’ - religious fervour and fireworks in the Peruvian Andes
25 December 2011In the fourth of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, historian Dr Gabriela Ramos travels to a village high in the Andes to...
Search and rescue: scientists identify a novel therapy with potential for treating Parkinson’s disease
22 December 2011A collaboration between virologists and neuroscientists at Cambridge University has demonstrated how viruses that cross the blood/brain barrier could be exploited to slow down, or...
Professor Stephen Hawking’s 70th birthday public symposium
21 December 2011Symposium will focus on ‘The State of the Universe’.
Why locusts swarm
20 December 2011Protein associated with learning implicated in causing grasshoppers to swarm.
Why buttercups reflect yellow on chins
14 December 2011Scientists discover why buttercups reflect yellow on chins – and it doesn’t have anything to do with whether you like butter. The new research sheds...
The man with the golden brain
13 December 2011What’s the point of a brain? This fundamental question has led Professor Daniel Wolpert to some remarkable conclusions about how and why the brain controls...