Building the Future
04 January 2011Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard on how new buildings and refurbishments across the University are helping research to flourish.
Astronomers find evidence of cosmic climate change
23 December 2010Evidence of an intense warming period in the Universe’s early history, described as a form of “cosmic climate change”, has been found by an international...
Sustainability revolution
17 December 2010A sustainability revolution could follow the agricultural, industrial and digital revolutions, according to speakers at a discussion hosted by These Young Minds.
Identity of Pompeii’s mystery horse revealed
17 December 2010The identity of a mysterious breed of “horse” which has baffled experts since its remains were uncovered at Pompeii has been resolved by a Cambridge...
Links between money and happiness explored
17 December 2010The question of whether money buys happiness comes up frequently in discussions of subjective wellbeing in both scholarly debates and casual conversation.
The business of social networking
30 November 2010A new study is examining the value of social networking technologies to business collaboration.
Cambridge Ideas - Vanishing Voices
15 November 2010Of the world's 6,500 living languages, half will cease to be spoken by the end of this century.
Henry VIII, King of Tunes (audio slideshow)
15 November 2010King Henry the VIII is chiefly associated with gluttony, lechery and murder. Surprisingly, it turns out he was also a deeply sensitive soul, who liked...
Cambridge Ideas - Strange Seas of Thought
15 November 2010A journey into Wordsworth's mind and the process of creation