Tracking inequality in India: the story of a pioneer
04 July 2017India’s booming business centres and gleaming shopping malls mask a grimmer reality. While one section of the population gets richer, another section gets poorer. In...
The capital of drinking: did 19th-century Liverpool deserve its reputation?
04 July 2017In his new book, geographer David Beckingham looks at the rigorous licencing regime that Liverpool’s authorities put in place to tighten their grip on problem...
Artificial bile ducts grown in lab and transplanted into mice could help treat liver disease in children
03 July 2017Cambridge scientists have developed a new method for growing and transplanting artificial bile ducts that could in future be used to help treat liver disease...
‘Brain training’ app found to improve memory in people with mild cognitive impairment
03 July 2017A ‘brain training’ game developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could help improve the memory of patients in the very earliest stages of...
Tree rings pinpoint eruption of Icelandic volcano to half a century before human settlement
29 June 2017An international group of researchers has dated a large volcanic eruption in Iceland to within a few months. The eruption, which is the oldest volcanic...
‘France’s Samuel Pepys’ is elevated from the footnotes of history
29 June 2017The journals and scrapbooks of Pierre de L’Estoile have for generations provided a vivid picture of France in a time of religious upheaval. Now Cambridge...
‘Bulges’ in volcanoes could be used to predict eruptions
28 June 2017A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a new way of measuring the pressure inside volcanoes, and found that it can...
Milner Therapeutics Institute: a drug discovery ecosystem
28 June 2017Tony Kouzarides is passionate about ecosystems: well-balanced communities that flourish on mutual and dynamic interactions. But the ecosystems that excite him are not made up...
Study reveals mysterious equality with which grains pack it in
26 June 2017For the first time, researchers have been able to test a theory explaining the physics of how substances like sand and gravel pack together, helping...
Drugs: how to pick a winner in clinical trials
26 June 2017When a drug fails late on in clinical trials it’s a major setback for launching new medicines. It can cost millions, even billions, of research...