Scientists harness solar power to produce clean hydrogen from biomass
14 March 2017A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has developed a way of using solar power to generate a fuel that is both sustainable...
Visualising the genome: researchers create first 3D structures of active DNA
13 March 2017Scientists have determined the first 3D structures of intact mammalian genomes from individual cells, showing how the DNA from all the chromosomes intricately folds to...
Celebrating 10 years of European research excellence
13 March 2017So what has the ERC ever done for us? Quite a lot, say Cambridge academics, as they mark the 10th anniversary of Europe’s premier research-funding...
Museum archive reconnects a London-based Congolese community with its heritage
10 March 2017When Reverend Kenred Smith captured moments of life in the Congo over 120 years ago, he couldn’t have imagined that the photos – now in...
Detect. Lock on. Intercept. The remarkable hunting ability of the robber fly
09 March 2017A small fly the size of a grain of rice could be the Top Gun of the fly world, with a remarkable ability to detect...
Final biomedical trial on captive chimpanzees is first oral Ebola vaccine for saving wild apes
09 March 2017Oral vaccine offers hope for ape species ravaged by Ebola and other diseases, as it can be widely dispersed to save more wild animals. However,...
Another India exhibition gives voice to India’s most marginalised communities
08 March 2017Hundreds of objects which tell the story of 100 million of India’s most marginalised citizens – its Indigenous and Adivasi people – are to go...
Opinion: New ways to treat depression in teenagers
08 March 2017Prime Minister Theresa May recently announced measures to improve mental health support at every stage of a person’s life, with an emphasis on early intervention...
Abandoned Liszt opera finally brought to life - 170 years later
07 March 2017An Italian opera by Franz Liszt – which lay incomplete and largely forgotten in a German archive for nearly two centuries – will be given...
Patients with OCD have difficulty learning when a stimulus is safe
06 March 2017People who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) are poorer at learning about the safety of a stimulus than healthy volunteers, which may contribute to...