Opinion: China has no good options for dealing with North Korea
05 September 2017What options does China have when it comes to North Korea? Very few, and none of them very good, according to PhD student Dylan Loh,...
Poet, activist, bird watcher: exploring John Clare as nature writer
29 August 2017At a symposium next month (15 September 2017) academics, artists and ornithologists will share their responses to the work of 19th-century poet John Clare, whose...
Leprosy turns the immune system against itself, study finds
23 August 2017Leprosy hijacks our immune system, turning an important repair mechanism into one that causes potentially irreparable damage to our nerve cells, according to new research...
'Precarious scheduling' at work affects over four million people in UK – far more than just zero-hours
16 August 2017Analysis of EU survey data suggests millions in UK may suffer anxiety as a result of unpredictable management-imposed flexible working hours. Research in supermarkets finds...
Domestic abuse ‘workshops’ reduce repeat offending and harm to public – study
16 August 2017First UK experiment on policing domestic abuse finds fewer men reoffending against partners – and reoffenders causing less harm to victims – when mandated to...
Study identifies dinosaur ‘missing link’
16 August 2017A ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ dinosaur may be the missing link between two major dinosaur groups, plugging what was previously a big gap between them.
Meadow of dancing brittle stars shows evolution at work
14 August 2017Newly-described fossil shows how brittle stars evolved in response to pressure from predators, and how an ‘evolutionary hangover’ managed to escape them.
DNA from Viking cod bones suggests 1,000 years of European fish trade
07 August 2017New research using DNA from the fish bone remains of Viking-era meals reveals that north Norwegians have been transporting – and possibly trading – Arctic...
Opinion: Measures of poverty and well-being still ignore the environment – this must change
04 August 2017Despite the value that humans get from nature, it is not included in measurements of poverty and well-being. Cambridge's Judith Schleicher and Bhaskar Vira say it's about time...
Of mice and women
04 August 2017Last year, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Professor of Mammalian Development and Stem Cell Biology, made not one, but two world-changing discoveries.