“Albatross!” The legendary giant seabird
01 June 2015The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, A is for Albatross – in sketches retrieved from...
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The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, A is for Albatross – in sketches retrieved from...
The importance of family support on a child’s ‘school readiness’ is highlighted in a study published this month in the British Journal of Educational Psychology....
Astronomers have discovered a disc of planetary debris surrounding a young sun-like star that shares remarkable similarities with the Kuiper Belt that lies beyond Neptune,...
A gene essential to the production of pain-sensing neurons in humans has been identified by an international team of researchers co-led by the University of...
Prior to the 2015 general election, the Conservative Party undertook in its manifesto to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and to enact a British...
The virus responsible for the common cold sore hijacks the machinery within our cells, causing them to break down and help shield the virus from...
James Clackson's new book looks at what language use can tell us about ancient societies.
Normal skin contains an unexpectedly high number of cancer-associated mutations, according to a study published in Science. The findings illuminate the first steps cells take...
In 2010, Parliament voted in favour of abolishing a rule that assumes men but not women intend to give property to family, as part of...
A dramatic video has captured the behaviour of cytotoxic T cells – the body’s ‘serial killers’ – as they hunt down and eliminate cancer cells...