Making the cloth that binds us: spinning, weaving and island identity
10 November 2012Ben Cartwright, a member of Cambridge’s Material Culture Lab, is an archaeologist whose research focuses on the ways in which the crafts of spinning and...
Research
Ben Cartwright, a member of Cambridge’s Material Culture Lab, is an archaeologist whose research focuses on the ways in which the crafts of spinning and...
The amount of time it takes to diagnose dementia could be reduced from the current 18 months to just three months, thanks in part to...
Viruses are capable of outmanoeuvring the ability of bacteria to commit 'suicide', new research shows.
As the birthplace of Fascism – and both ally and victim of Nazi Germany – Italy presents a particularly complex case study of how countries...
A landmark study of divided cities such as Jerusalem and Belfast suggests that while physical divisions remain these cities cannot thrive, and that a 'post-conflict’...
A five-year project to publish the collected works of pioneering British economist John Maynard Keynes, is today unveiled by Cambridge University Press.
From the elixirs of legend to transmutation of base metals into gold, medieval medical practice and social mobility were steeped in alchemy.
New insights from research suggest ways to measure the world at the scale of single atoms and molecules.
Fundraising is under way for a joint Cambridge University and Papworth Hospital Heart and Lung Research Institute – to sit alongside the anticipated new Papworth...
A new project based in Cambridge’s Division of Social Anthropology is looking at interactions between China, Mongolia and Russia at the point where these nations...