‘Mid-sized’ firms key to UK manufacturing
29 April 2013A new report suggests that global production shift to Asia may have “run its course” and points to “undervalued” mid-sized manufacturing firms as essential to...
Down but not out
26 April 2013Most business start-ups fail. But countless failed entrepreneurs go on to establish further enterprises. In his PhD research, Dr Keith Cotterill, a businessman with more than...
Movement of pyrrole molecules defy ‘classical’ physics
26 April 2013Quantum laws loom ever larger in physical world as new research finds quantum phenomena in effect on a molecular level
On the fly: African summer school on insect neuroscience
26 April 2013A programme created by Cambridge researchers is teaching African scientists how insects can be powerful yet inexpensive model systems in neuroscientific research.
Harnessing the power of research to benefit developing countries
25 April 2013CEO of GAVI Alliance to give Wellcome Trust-Cambridge Centre for Global Health Research inaugural lecture
New conceptions: single mothers by sperm donation
25 April 2013Sophie Zadeh, a PhD candidate in the Centre for Family Research, is contributing to a new study of the well-being of single mothers by sperm donation...
New device could make diagnosing disease as simple as breathing
25 April 2013A range of diseases and conditions, from asthma to liver disease, could be diagnosed and monitored quickly and painlessly just by breathing, using gas sensing...
From EDSAC to Raspberry Pi: 75 years of “computers that work”
24 April 2013Cambridge’s Computer Lab marks its 75th anniversary this month, celebrating a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship that has taken it from the age of vast...
Evidence shows fish collaboration on hunting prey
23 April 2013Groupers and coral trout perform a pointing signal to indicate the location of hidden prey
‘My dear old friend’: Darwin the man revealed as 40-year correspondence published online
23 April 2013The 40-year friendship of Charles Darwin and Joseph Hooker, the most significant and scientifically important of Darwin’s life, can now be explored by anyone in...