Let’s get statted
03 June 2015With more information than ever at our fingertips, statisticians are vital to innumerable fields and industries. Welcome to the world of the datarati, where humans...
Birds ‘cry hawk’ to give offspring chance to escape predators
03 June 2015Surprising finding shows that thornbills simulate a ‘chorus of alarm’ to distract predators by convincing them something scarier is on its way.
Scientists release Ebola sequencing data to global research community online
03 June 2015A team of scientists, part of the international effort to curb further spread of the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, has released its first dataset...
Bad air day? Low-cost pollution detectors to tackle air quality
02 June 2015Pollution causes 30,000 people a year in the UK to die early yet most of us are unaware of the degree to which we are...
Big Data – getting to the heart of the Information Revolution
01 June 2015Big data has captured the world’s attention, with talk of a new Industrial Revolution based on information, and of data being one of the 21st...
“Albatross!” The legendary giant seabird
01 June 2015The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, A is for Albatross – in sketches retrieved from...
New index of children’s ‘school readiness’ highlights importance of family support
28 May 2015The importance of family support on a child’s ‘school readiness’ is highlighted in a study published this month in the British Journal of Educational Psychology....
Discovery shows what the solar system looked like as a ‘toddler’
27 May 2015Astronomers have discovered a disc of planetary debris surrounding a young sun-like star that shares remarkable similarities with the Kuiper Belt that lies beyond Neptune,...
‘Pain sensing’ gene discovery could help in development of new methods of pain relief
25 May 2015A gene essential to the production of pain-sensing neurons in humans has been identified by an international team of researchers co-led by the University of...
Human Rights in the United Kingdom: Where Now?
22 May 2015Prior to the 2015 general election, the Conservative Party undertook in its manifesto to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and to enact a British...