Beliefs, predictions and shortcuts in the deceitful brain
01 May 2010Professor Paul Fletcher believes that exploring how the brain makes predictions about the world will help us to understand mental illness.
Libraries and light
01 May 2010Research in the Department of Architecture aims to reveal the creative potential of light in the design of contemporary libraries.
Magneto-active porous materials get close to the bone
01 May 2010The most common cause of artificial joint failure is loosening of the prosthetic implant. Dr Athina Markaki is designing materials to anchor them securely.
Children's literature comes of age
01 May 2010A new Centre for Children’s Literature is providing a focus for research on how children are shaped by early encounters with books and film.
A scriptorium of commonplace books
01 May 2010A digital archive of 500-year-old 'filofaxes' offers extraordinary insight into early thought and writing practices.
Bird’s eye view of how cuckoos fool their hosts
23 April 2010Using field experiments in Africa and a new computer model that gives them a bird's eye view of the world, Cambridge scientists have discovered how...
Striking similarities between chips, worms and brains
22 April 2010Scientists have discovered "striking similarities" between human brains, the nervous system of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans and computer chips.
How ancient Roman teens had it tough too
19 April 2010Professor Kathleen Coleman, Professor of Latin at Harvard University and renowned author on Latin literature and history will give Newnham's biennial Jane Harrison Memorial Lecture...
Happiness hinges on the lives of others
15 April 2010People's happiness is significantly bound up with that of their "significant others", a new study into men and women's differing attitudes to well-being has found.
Praise for research initiative on British Muslims
09 April 2010A Cambridge University-led project which investigated what it means to be a Muslim living in modern Britain has won high praise as a model for...