What can Pokémon Go teach the world of conservation?
16 November 2016The augmented reality game, designed for mobile devices, allows users to capture, battle and train virtual creatures called Pokémon that appear on screen as if...
Before race mattered: what archives tell us about early encounters in the French colonies
16 November 2016As Europe expanded its overseas colonies, fixed ideas of racial differences took hold. Historian Dr Mélanie Lamotte, whose forebears include a slave, is researching a...
Keeping patients safe in hospital
15 November 2016Healthcare is a complex beast and too often problems arise that can put patients’ health – and in some cases, lives – at risk. A...
Inability to safely store fat increases risk of diabetes and heart disease
14 November 2016A large-scale genetic study has provided strong evidence that the development of insulin resistance – a risk factor for type 2 diabetes and heart attacks...
Man on a mission to beat cancer
14 November 2016Thirty years ago, Professor Richard Gilbertson pledged to implement a 15 per cent reduction in mortality from children’s brain cancer. This is the story of what happened...
Man v fish in the Amazon rainforest
11 November 2016The Enawenê-nawê people of the Amazon rainforest make beautifully engineered fishing dams. Living alongside this indigenous community, Dr Chloe Nahum-Claudel observed how the act of...
World’s 'smallest magnifying glass' makes it possible to see individual chemical bonds between atoms
10 November 2016Using the strange properties of tiny particles of gold, researchers have concentrated light down smaller than a single atom, letting them look at individual chemical...
Multi-drug resistant infection spreading globally among cystic fibrosis patients
10 November 2016A multi-drug resistant infection that can cause life-threatening illness in people with cystic fibrosis (CF) and can spread from patient to patient has spread globally...
A counterintuitive approach to fighting cancer
09 November 2016When you’re under attack, you fight back. You gather your troops and attack the invading enemy, hoping to wound and defeat them, while supporting and...
Believing is Seeing: a Cambridge Shorts film
09 November 2016Imagination is where ideas start: in the mind’s eye. The ability to think creatively – to dream the impossible – is behind the technological developments...