New database for vital model organism launched
28 November 2011The database, PomBase, important new tool for scientists researching fission yeast.
Recreating ‘The Great Escape’
28 November 2011First it was the Dambusters raid, now Cambridge University’s Dr Hugh Hunt has helped to recreate ‘The Great Escape’ from Germany’s infamous Stalag Luft III.
Where God meets physics
28 November 2011Eminent thinker and commentator Revd Dr John Polkinghorne, Fellow of the Royal Society, will be giving a public talk – titled A Destiny Beyond Death...
Living with the Inugguit
25 November 2011A film documenting the disappearing oral traditions of the northernmost settled people on Earth offers a glimpse into how their way of life is threatened by...
Mining the language of science
18 November 2011Scientists are developing a computer that can read vast amounts of scientific literature, make connections between facts and develop hypotheses.
Testing the World’s English
15 November 2011English language testing, and the research that underpins it, has been elevated to a new level by the increasing global dominance of English, now used...
Transporter 5: solving an ancient mystery of the cell
14 November 2011The discovery by scientists in Cambridge and Alberta of a fifth adaptor protein – a tiny and vital component of many cells –will lay the...
For lust of knowing what should not be known
12 November 2011Clare Holtham (1948-2010) had a huge enthusiasm for learning. After a troubled childhood, which led to a spell of homelessness, she became an intrepid traveller...
Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan awarded Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship by the Royal Society
08 November 2011The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship scheme supports excellent scientists and engineers at an early stage of their career.
Unconscious language learning
03 November 2011Unconscious learning could be the secret to speeding up learning a second language.