Smart thinking
07 April 2011As audiences watch the movie "Limitless", in which an author uses a smart drug to boost his brain, a new book shines a spotlight on...
Science is a Risky Quiz-ness: A new study aims to assess how we perceive risks
05 April 2011A new study aims to be the biggest study of risk perception ever undertaken.
Cloud computing and the philosophy of trust
05 April 2011Some of the world’s finest minds in academic philosophy are debating the impact of the internet and cloud computing in Cambridge this week.
All in the script
05 April 2011The power of “scriptural reasoning” to transform the way in which different faiths understand one another is to be the subject of a major lecture...
Germans top table of happiest tweets
02 April 2011Germany is the happiest country in the world, according to a happiness map based on Twitter users.
32,000 years of special effects
01 April 2011The only Briton to have entered the spectacular cave featured in Werner Herzog’s new documentary explains how rock-art was just one element of multi-sensory performances...
Scans reveal differences in brain structure of antisocial teens
01 April 2011Brain scans of teenage boys with severe antisocial behaviour have revealed differences in the structure of the developing brain.
Cambridge Ideas - Sticky Feet
31 March 2011Ants have incredibly sticky feet. With them they can hang onto ceilings, while carrying 100 times their body weight.
Cambridge Ideas - The Music In Me
31 March 2011Dr Jason Rentfrow, from the University's Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, explores the links between personality and musical taste.
Cabbage gelder, cut throat of pigs, or man trap?
31 March 2011Faced with filling in the 2011 census form plenty of people will be tempted to put frivolous answers into the boxes asking for details about...