Fruit fly droppings give insight into human gut problems
10 January 2011Clues about how the human gut helps regulate our appetite have come from a most unusual source – fruit fly faeces.
Research road trip to uncover Iceland’s literary and cultural heritage
10 January 2011A decommissioned Land Rover ambulance will be home to Cambridge University’s Dr Emily Lethbridge from December – as she begins an epic year-long research trip...
New Health Services Research Centre opens
10 January 2011A new Health Services Research Centre based at the University of Cambridge has launched.
Endangered languages database launched online
10 January 2011An open database of endangered languages has been launched by researchers in the hope of creating a free, online portal that will give people access...
New Cambridge research unit to help encourage healthier habits
10 January 2011A new research unit based at the University of Cambridge will help inform the Government’s policy making on behaviour and health by investigating the best...
Research lays foundation for new era of electronics
10 January 2011Physicists from the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, the University of Cambridge and other institutes have successfully developed technology to enable the control and detection of spin...
Cambridge Ideas - The Emotional Computer
10 January 2011Cambridge University film provides a glimpse of how robots and humans could interact in the future.
Ancient Bible fragments reveal a forgotten history
10 January 2011New research has uncovered a forgotten chapter in the history of the Bible, offering a rare glimpse of Byzantine Jewish life and culture.
Addiction treatment – genes can play a part
04 January 2011Imagine a one-off cure for drug addiction or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) instead of today’s life-long therapy regimes.
Looking into the brain
04 January 2011The Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre is a unique venture that brings together scientists and doctors from Cambridge University and Cambridge’s Addenbrookes Hospital for the development...