Research
Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the...
The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the...
Before the ‘Out of Africa’ migration that led our ancestors into Eurasia and beyond, human populations learned to adapt to new and challenging habitats including...
Meet Bhumika Billa: the legal scholar with a poet’s love of language. Her Information Theory of Law pushes our legal systems towards justice and fairness.
Eleven senior researchers at the University of Cambridge have been awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council – the highest number of grants awarded...
To save democracy and solve the world's biggest challenges, we need to get better at spotting and exposing people who exploit human cooperation for personal...
The new head of Cambridge Enterprise reflects on innovation in Cambridge and what he's learnt from a career spent founding and building successful life science...
Research finds that appetite for bushmeat – rather than the black market for scales to use in traditional Chinese medicine – may be driving West Africa’s illegal hunting of...
Researchers have found that chunks of ‘flipped’ DNA can help fish quickly adapt to new habitats and evolve into new species, acting as evolutionary ‘superchargers’.
The Reckoning is an intimate work of documentary theatre composed from a verified archive of witness testimonies chronicling Russia’s war of aggression. It is now...
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