Cancer patients lose faith in healthcare system if referred late by GP
31 July 2015If it takes more than three trips to the GP to be referred for cancer tests, patients are more likely to be dissatisfied with their...
Iggy the Iguanodon and the 160-year-old dinosaur song
31 July 2015The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, I is for Iguanodon – a thousand ages underground, his skeleton...
Cambridge researchers and pharma in innovative new consortium to develop and study early stage drugs
28 July 2015An innovative new Consortium will act as a ‘match-making’ service between pharmaceutical companies and researchers in Cambridge with the aim of developing and studying precision...
Close-up film shows for the first time how ants use ‘combs’ and ‘brushes’ to keep their antennae clean
27 July 2015Using unique mechanical experiments and close-up video, Cambridge researchers have shown how ants use microscopic ‘combs’ and ‘brushes’ to keep their antennae clean, which could...
Stressed young birds stop learning from their parents and turn to wider flock
23 July 2015Juvenile zebra finches that experience high stress levels will ignore how their own parents forage and instead learn such skills from other, unrelated adults. This...
Musical tastes offer a window into how you think
22 July 2015Do you like your jazz to be Norah Jones or Ornette Coleman, your classical music to be Bach or Stravinsky, or your rock to be...
Astronomers witness assembly of galaxies in the early Universe for the first time
22 July 2015An international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge have detected the most distant clouds of star-forming gas yet found in normal galaxies...
Regular consumption of sugary drinks associated with type 2 diabetes
22 July 2015Sugar sweetened drinks may give rise to nearly two million diabetes cases over ten years in the US and 80,000 in the UK, estimates a...
‘Pill on a string’ could help spot early signs of cancer of the gullet
20 July 2015A ‘pill on a string’ developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could help doctors detect oesophageal cancer – cancer of the gullet –...
Cambridge scientists receive Royal Society awards
20 July 2015Four Cambridge scientists have been recognised by the Royal Society for their achievements in research.