‘Magic’ lights to slash household electricity use
28 January 2009A new way of making LEDs could see household lighting bills reduced by up to 75% in five years time, thanks to research at Cambridge...
BP and University of Cambridge sign agreement on collaboration
27 January 2009A formal agreement has been signed between energy giant BP and the University of Cambridge marking their intention to expand their long-standing relationship and collaborative...
Plants not guilty of making greenhouse gases
14 January 2009A study led by scientists at Cambridge University and Royal Holloway, University of London, has shown that plants are not guilty of creating tens of...
Traders’ biology may play a bigger role than their rationality
13 January 2009Financial traders' success may depend more on their biological traits than on their ability to make rational choices, researchers at the University of Cambridge have...
Research links testosterone levels to autistic traits
13 January 2009Research at Cambridge University's Autism Research Centre (ARC) has found that exposure to high levels of testosterone in the womb is related to the development...
Revolutionising the understanding of the early social fabric of Cambridge
09 January 2009A new book published by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) suggests that population density in the later prehistoric / Roman Cambridge area may have been...
Making visible embryos
04 January 2009A new online exhibition explores the visual culture of embryology as part of a research initiative on the history of reproduction.
Rethinking the secrets of life: a code upon a code
04 January 2009Epigenetics is taking the biomedical research world by storm; three Cambridge scientists use examples from their own research to explain why.
Prenatal origins of heart disease
04 January 2009Studies in La Paz, the highest city in the world, are helping to uncover a link between prenatal conditions and heart disease in later life.
Economic and Social Research Council
01 January 2009The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) supports research from across the social sciences, from sociology to anthropology, through to statistics, methods and computing.