Cambridge success in Wellcome Image Awards
29 June 2012University of Cambridge researchers created four out of the 16 winning images in the recent Wellcome Image Awards 2012.
Can democracy meet our 21st century challenges?
28 June 2012Complacency among democratic countries who think they can just “muddle through” could make them unable to tackle long-term problems like climate change, a University of...
Welcome to Bastion: warzone ethnography with the combat surgeons
27 June 2012A Cambridge academic was given unprecedented access to the military hospital at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, to study the teamwork of the combat surgeons. The...
Charting gender's "incomplete revolution"
27 June 2012A major investigation into gender equality across Europe expresses “deep concern” about the prospects for further closing the gender-pay gap, and finds evidence for the...
Judge team to advise on Togo's development
26 June 2012A team of Cambridge alumni led by Sir Paul Judge will help to prepare a framework for the development of Togo over the next 10-20...
Morality prevents crime
25 June 2012A landmark study of criminal activity in teenagers indicates that some never see crime as a course of action while others are vulnerable to environmental...
Cause of rare growth disease discovered
24 June 2012Scientists hopeful discovery will provide a biological target for drug therapy.
Marking the centenary of Turing's birth
23 June 2012Saturday 23 June marks the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing - mathematical genius, hero of the WWII code breakers of Bletchley Park, and...
Activist art reflects fight for rights of African AIDS sufferers
22 June 2012A new exhibition launching at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology explores the psychology and politics of living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa, where social...
Avian flu viruses which are transmissible between humans could evolve in nature
21 June 2012Research provides insight into feasibility of virus becoming airborne transmissible.