Pre-Inka elites and the social life of fragments
31 October 2017Objects unearthed in the Andes tell new stories of societies lacking hierarchical leadership in the time before the Inka Empire.
The social enterprise greenhouse that helps businesses bloom
30 October 2017When it comes to starting social enterprises, Paul Tracey and Neil Stott would love "to see a thousand flowers bloom". But doing good for society isn’t...
Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs
30 October 2017Researchers have pinpointed the date of what could be the oldest solar eclipse yet recorded. The event, which occurred on 30 October 1207 BC, is...
The Reformation is remembered
27 October 2017The Reformation is famously traced to an event that took place in Germany 500 years ago and reverberated across Europe. An online exhibition paints...
The man who tried to read all the books in the world
26 October 2017One man’s quest to create a library of everything, 500 years before Google Books was conceived, foreshadowed the challenges of ‘big data’ and our reliance...
Skin found to play a role in controlling blood pressure
25 October 2017Skin plays a surprising role in helping regulate blood pressure and heart rate, according to scientists at the University of Cambridge and the Karolinska Institute,...
‘Scars’ left by icebergs record West Antarctic ice retreat
25 October 2017Thousands of marks on the Antarctic seafloor, caused by icebergs which broke free from glaciers more than ten thousand years ago, show how part of...
Changing the face of Indian farming
25 October 2017Indian agriculture is expected to feed a growing and increasingly urbanised population. But if everyone wants to move to towns and cities, who is left...
Carbon capture: universities and industry work together to tackle emissions
25 October 2017An international collaboration between universities and industry will further develop carbon capture and storage technology – one of the best hopes for drastically reducing carbon...
Animating objects: what material culture can tell us about domestic devotions
24 October 2017Rustic figurines of a resigned-looking Virgin clutching her child may have no obvious literary or artistic merit to us today. But understanding what they meant...