Naked Scientists return to the radio this Sunday
12 January 2013Following successful negotiations with the BBC, the University’s Naked Scientists will be taking to the Cambridgeshire airwaves again at 6pm on Sunday 13th January with...
Food industry giants call for pitches from University inventors
12 January 2013University inventors and entrepreneurs whose research has applications in the food and consumer goods sectors will have the opportunity to demonstrate their ideas to representatives...
Bella Italia: an Englishman’s adventures abroad
11 January 2013A Butler Day at St John’s College tomorrow (12 January) celebrates the many trips to Italy undertaken by the polymath Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon....
Smarter infrastructure
10 January 2013A team from the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction has developed a mechanical amplifier which converts ambient vibrations into electricity more effectively, and could...
Leading the battle to protect the Amazon
09 January 2013A graduate of Cambridge’s fledgling MPhil in Conservation Leadership returned last month to speak to current students about his vital work to protect the Amazon...
Botanic Garden names new Director
09 January 2013Dr Beverley Glover has been named as the new Director of Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Dr Glover will take up the post, and the associated...
The remarkable notebook of a 19th-century naturalist
09 January 2013A notebook recording the fauna of Cambridgeshire observed and collected by the Reverend Leonard Jenyns between 1820 and 1849 has been published in full for...
How sperm swim near surfaces
08 January 2013Using high-speed microscopic imaging, Professor Raymond Goldstein's group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics has demonstrated how the interactions of microbes such...
Microswimmers hit the wall
07 January 2013New research reveals what happens when swimming cells such as spermatozoa and algae hit a solid wall, and has implications for applications in diagnostics and...
Unlocking nature’s quantum engineering for efficient solar energy
06 January 2013Quantum scale photosynthesis in biological systems which inhabit extreme environments could hold key to new designs for solar energy and nanoscale devices.