How to read a digital footprint
23 June 2015Researchers are using social media data to build a picture of the personalities of millions, changing core ideas of how psychological profiling works. They say...
New technique for ‘seeing’ ions at work in a supercapacitor
22 June 2015A new technique which enables researchers to visualise the activity of individual ions inside battery-like devices called supercapacitors, could enable greater control over their properties...
Expanding the DNA alphabet: ‘extra’ DNA base found to be stable in mammals
22 June 2015A rare DNA base, previously thought to be a temporary modification, has been shown to be stable in mammalian DNA, suggesting that it plays a...
Novel Thoughts #5: Juliet Foster on Susan Fromberg Schaeffer's The Madness of a Seduced Woman
22 June 2015New film series Novel Thoughts reveals the reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists and peeks inside the covers of the books that have played a...
Silent flights: How owls could help make wind turbines and planes quieter
22 June 2015A newly-designed material, which mimics the wing structure of owls, could help make wind turbines, computer fans and even planes much quieter. Early wind tunnel...
Life in the snow forests: 100-year-old photographs reunited with communities
20 June 2015Indigenous people from the snow forests of Inner Mongolia and Siberia have been reunited with century-old photographs of their family and communities as part of...
Masters of the universe
19 June 2015The ‘world’s largest IT project’ — a system with the power of one hundred million home computers — may help to unravel many of the...
Novel Thoughts #4: Simon Redfern on Chinghiz Aitmatov's Jamila
19 June 2015New film series Novel Thoughts reveals the reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists and peeks inside the covers of the books that have played a...
Archive of Margaret Thatcher acquired for the nation
18 June 2015Margaret Thatcher’s previously unpublished memoir of the Falklands War has been acquired for the nation - after Arts Council England today announced the acceptance in lieu...
MRSA contamination found in supermarket sausages and minced pork
18 June 2015A survey carried out earlier this year has found the first evidence of the ‘superbug’ bacteria Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) in sausages and minced pork...