Research links testosterone levels to autistic traits
Research at Cambridge University's Autism Research Centre (ARC) has found that exposure to high levels of testosterone in the womb is related to the development...
Revolutionising the understanding of the early social fabric of Cambridge
A new book published by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) suggests that population density in the later prehistoric / Roman Cambridge area may have been...
Prenatal origins of heart disease
Studies in La Paz, the highest city in the world, are helping to uncover a link between prenatal conditions and heart disease in later life.
Rethinking the secrets of life: a code upon a code
Epigenetics is taking the biomedical research world by storm; three Cambridge scientists use examples from their own research to explain why.
Freeze Frame: through the eyes of the polar explorers
An ambitious project is making accessible some of the most important visual resources for research into international polar exploration.
The new geography of personality
Jason Rentfrow explains how analysis of over three-quarters of a million online surveys has been used to build a "map" of the USA.
Engaging with Inuit communities
At first glance, reasons for researching locations as different as the Arctic and Mexico are not self-evident. But comparison is at the core of Social...
New hopes for the nervous system: multiple sclerosis
Cambridge neurologists have shown that an antibody used to treat leukaemia also limits and repairs the damage in multiple sclerosis.
Key to regulation of puberty discovered
A team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and the University of Cukurova in Turkey has taken a major step to understanding how the...
Superfast genomes move a step closer to reality
The first Asian and African human genomes have been deciphered using a technique originally invented by Professors Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman at the University...