Putting plants under the microscope
18 June 2021Advanced microscopes at the University’s Sainsbury Laboratory are revealing the potential of plants as green factories for new chemicals and materials - as well as...
Targeting cellular response to SARS-CoV-2 holds promise as new way to fight infection
17 June 2021A new treatment approach focused on fixing cell damage, rather than fighting the virus directly, is effective against SARS-CoV-2 in lab models. If found safe for...
Study identifies trigger for ‘head-to-tail’ axis development in human embryo
17 June 2021Scientists have identified key molecular events in the developing human embryo between days 7 and 14 - one of the most mysterious, yet critical, stages of our...
The power of touch
17 June 2021As a major Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition explores human touch through 4,000 years of art, Cambridge researchers explain why this sense is so...
Teenagers at greatest risk of self-harming could be identified almost a decade earlier
15 June 2021Researchers have identified two subgroups of adolescents who self-harm and have shown that it is possible to predict those individuals at greatest risk almost a...
New risk calculator to help save many more lives from heart attack and stroke
14 June 2021A new risk calculator will better predict people at high risk of heart and circulatory diseases years before they strike, and is ready for use...
Britain's first colonial anthropology experiment revealed
12 June 2021A new exhibition at MAA examines the pioneering ethnographic archive assembled by Britain’s first colonial anthropologist, Cambridge alumnus Northcote Thomas.
Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed a plague of bunions in medieval Britain
11 June 2021Researchers analysing skeletal remains in Cambridge find a dramatic increase in ‘hallux valgus’ around the time that pointed shoes became de rigueur in the 1300s.
Astronomers spot a ‘blinking giant’ near the centre of the Galaxy
11 June 2021Astronomers have spotted a giant ‘blinking’ star towards the centre of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light years away.
The futurist who'd like the future to slow down - just a little
10 June 2021The problem with being a futurist, says Richard Watson, is that change is happening a lot faster and a lot crazier these days. We talk...
