Opinion: How to climb the social ladder in ancient Rome
22 November 2016Jerry Toner, Director of Studies in Classics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, discusses the stratification of Roman society.
Opinion: Would gender differences exist if we treated all people the same from birth?
22 November 2016Joe Herbert, Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience, explores what we mean by 'gender identity' and asks whether we should insist on an equal gender distribution across occupations and...
Reconditioning the brain to overcome fear
21 November 2016Researchers have discovered a way to remove specific fears from the brain, using a combination of artificial intelligence and brain scanning technology. Their technique, published...
Opinion: Angela Merkel to run again: why she's the antithesis of Donald Trump in a post-truth world
21 November 2016In this article, Katharina Karcher from the Department of German and Dutch discusses the election prospects of the self-described “chancellor for turbulent times”.
Rice farming in India much older than thought, used as 'summer crop' by Indus civilisation
21 November 2016Thought to have arrived from China in 2000 BC, latest research shows domesticated rice agriculture in India and Pakistan existed centuries earlier, and suggests systems...
Dish Life: a Cambridge Shorts film
21 November 2016Science is demanding as well as exciting. Dish Life, the final of four Cambridge Shorts films, compares the task of raising stem cells in the...
Talk with Your Hands: a Cambridge Shorts film
18 November 2016The capacity for language is what sets us apart from other animals. Talk with Your Hands, the third of four Cambridge Shorts films, explores the...
A BLUEPRINT for blood cells: Cambridge researchers play leading role in major release of epigenetic studies
17 November 2016Cambridge researchers have played a leading role in several studies released today looking at how variation in and potentially heritable changes to our DNA, known...
What can Pokémon Go teach the world of conservation?
16 November 2016The augmented reality game, designed for mobile devices, allows users to capture, battle and train virtual creatures called Pokémon that appear on screen as if...
Before race mattered: what archives tell us about early encounters in the French colonies
16 November 2016As Europe expanded its overseas colonies, fixed ideas of racial differences took hold. Historian Dr Mélanie Lamotte, whose forebears include a slave, is researching a...