Death by monoculture
02 September 2011Having just returned from a year spent documenting the language and culture of the remote Inughuit community of north-western Greenland, Dr Stephen Leonard describes how...
UK’s first Amundsen exhibition celebrates extraordinary explorer
02 September 2011The snowshoes, knife and boots belonging to Roald Amundsen as he led the first team to reach the South Pole are among objects on display...
Sparing or sharing? Protecting wild species may require growing more food on less land
02 September 2011Separating land for nature and land for crops may be the best way to meet increased food demand with the least impact on wild species.
Inside Britain’s biggest Iron Age fortress
01 September 2011A major excavation at Britain’s biggest Iron Age hill-fort has begun in Somerset, in the hope that it will at last enable historians to explain...
Food security: your questions answered
31 August 2011Over the past month, the University of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century – how...
‘Picture This #4’ – John Speed Map of Cambridgeshire, University Library.
31 August 2011John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine is one of the world’s great cartographic treasures.
Professor Lawrence Sherman awarded Benjamin Franklin Medal
31 August 2011The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London will award the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Medal to the Wolfson...
Graphene goes plasmonic
30 August 2011Researchers have discovered a crucial recipe for improving the characteristics of graphene devices for use as photodetectors in the next generation of pholtovoltaic devices for...
Eating chocolate cuts risk of heart disease
30 August 2011Eating high levels of chocolate could be associated with a significant reduction in the risk of certain cardiovascular disorders, reveals Cambridge research published in the...
Europe’s forgotten “religion”
25 August 2011Hundreds of millions of people in Europe alone are “non-religious”, but non-religion remains an understudied field. To mark the launch of a new journal on...