A move towards understanding
04 January 2011Professor Daniel Wolpert at Cambridge’s Department of Engineering has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Programme Grant to study the computations the brain performs when controlling...
Amniocentesis: a key to identify autism in the womb?
04 January 2011Cambridge researchers are pioneering a new test for autism in the womb, by measuring the levels of testosterone produced by the foetus, which makes its...
Doctor’s orders, Roman style
04 January 2011Rebecca Flemming from the Faculty of Classics works with ancient texts on health and reproduction.
Building the Future
04 January 2011Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard on how new buildings and refurbishments across the University are helping research to flourish.
Astronomers find evidence of cosmic climate change
23 December 2010Evidence of an intense warming period in the Universe’s early history, described as a form of “cosmic climate change”, has been found by an international...
Identity of Pompeii’s mystery horse revealed
17 December 2010The identity of a mysterious breed of “horse” which has baffled experts since its remains were uncovered at Pompeii has been resolved by a Cambridge...
Sustainability revolution
17 December 2010A sustainability revolution could follow the agricultural, industrial and digital revolutions, according to speakers at a discussion hosted by These Young Minds.
The business of social networking
30 November 2010A new study is examining the value of social networking technologies to business collaboration.
Cambridge Ideas - Strange Seas of Thought
15 November 2010A journey into Wordsworth's mind and the process of creation
Cambridge Ideas - Vanishing Voices
15 November 2010Of the world's 6,500 living languages, half will cease to be spoken by the end of this century.