A very hairy story
07 November 2016Beards are back in fashion. But today’s hipster styles convey rather different messages to the hair men cultivated in the early modern period. Historian Dr Stefan...
Questions of life and death
04 November 2016An ambitious seminar series began last week with a discussion of a remarkable documentary. Filmed in a pioneering hospice, The Time to Die addresses...
What makes a sand dune sing?
04 November 2016When solids flow like liquids they can make sand dunes sing, and they can also result in a potentially deadly avalanche. Cambridge researchers are studying...
Brexit: High Court ruling on Article 50 explained
03 November 2016In a landmark constitutional judgment handed down today, the High Court has put a stumbling block in the way of the Prime Minister’s plan to...
Ectoplasm, spirit trumpets and paintings from Pompeii: 600 years of Curious Objects
03 November 2016Why does one of the world’s great research libraries have ‘ectoplasm’, a spirit trumpet and beard hair posted to Charles Darwin among its eight million...
Brexit: Listen to experts from Cambridge and beyond discuss how, why and what next for Brexit Britain
02 November 2016Listen to some of the talks that were given as part of the University's 'Brexit Week' series, which took place from 18 - 22 October.
Holbein’s Dance Of Death - the 16th century Charlie Hebdo
02 November 2016He is best remembered for the magnificent portraits he produced as the court painter of Henry VIII; but a new study of Hans Holbein’s famous...
Pain in the machine: a Cambridge Shorts film
02 November 2016The pain we experience as humans has physical and emotional components. Could we develop a machine that feels pain a similar way – and would...
Elephant poaching costs African economies US $25 million per year in lost tourism revenue
01 November 2016New research shows investing in elephant conservation is smart economic policy for many African countries.
Does your empathy predict if you would stop and help an injured person?
31 October 2016If you see an injured person by the side of the road, would you stop and help them, or are you more likely to walk...