Strategic research partnership drives materials science research and training
Rolls-Royce and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will work jointly with the Universities of Cambridge, Birmingham and Swansea in a new £50 million...
Beacons of life and death: chromatin and cancer
A new generation of cancer therapeutics is on the horizon thanks to fresh light being shed on how genes are switched on and off.
Famine’s changing face
Dr Zoltán Tiba’s research on why famines happen is posing questions about the root causes and possible long-term interventions.
Evidence of the first modern humans in North Africa
Excavation of the deepest archaeological trench in North Africa half a century after it was first dug is offering a glimpse of up to 200,000...
Le bon usage: using French correctly
The purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is exploring the reasons...
The educational neuroscience of dyslexia and dyscalculia
For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is helping to understand why.
The future of books
The book publishing industry has gone through more change during the past few decades than in any comparable period in its 500-year history. Professor John...
New funding to untangle Alzheimer’s disease
A major new drive to understand, diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease has begun in Cambridge.
Britain's island heritage: half a million years of history
The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.
The importance of grandmothers in the lives of their grandchildren
It is widely believed that women live long post-reproductive lives to help care for their grandchildren. Now research suggests that the pattern may differ depending...