Test your memory!
10 January 2012Online test allows public to assess their recall; scientists will use data to study long-term memory.
Ice Age, interrupted
09 January 2012Research shows that a new Ice Age could well have been upon us in the next millennium were it not for increases in CO2 due...
Seeing Quantum Mechanics with the naked eye
08 January 2012New research lays groundwork for new generation of ultrasensitive gyroscopes to measure gravity, magnetic field, and create quantum circuits.
Hopes for reversing age-associated effects in MS patients
06 January 2012Proof of principle study suggests the age-associated decline of the remyelination process is reversible.
Reprogrammed oestrogen binding linked to more aggressive breast cancer
05 January 2012Researchers have discovered how receptors for the female sex hormone oestrogen attach to a different part of the DNA in breast cancer patients who are...
Vermeer breaks Fitzwilliam Museum records
05 January 2012Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence has achieved record-breaking attendance figures at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, with more than 130,000 visitors to the Museum since the...
‘Picture This #11’ - Horses' teeth, Whipple Museum
04 January 2012The models demonstrate the appearance of horses’ teeth at different ages, the effects of wind sucking and crib biting.
'Extreme Sleepover #12’ – an equestrian adventure on the Mongolian steppes
02 January 2012In the latest report of the Extreme Sleepover series, undergraduate Robin Irvine explains how a fascination for the relationships between humans, horses and dogs took...
'Extreme Sleepover #11’ - moulins and meltwater on the Greenland ice sheet
01 January 2012In the eleventh of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, glaciologists Dr Ian Willis and Alison Banwell watch as a lake disappears before...
'Extreme Sleepover #10’ - an encounter with ‘Hell’s Gate’
31 December 2011In the tenth of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, PhD student Robert Hird pitches his tent next to a gas crater in...