White House veteran warns of gathering storm
01 November 2012As America reels from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, a Cambridge academic and White House veteran is warning of a looming foreign policy storm for...
Duncan Bell and Sujit Sivasundaram win Philip Leverhulme Prizes
01 November 2012Dr Duncan Bell (POLIS) and Dr Sujit Sivasundaram (History) have won Philip Leverhulme Prizes.
New MS drug proves effective where others have failed
01 November 2012Alemtuzumab, a drug previously used to treat a type of leukaemia, shown to help people with early multiple sclerosis who relapsed on previous drugs as...
Rude, moi?
01 November 2012The French and British are historic foes. The wars may be over but the rivalry continues. Tomorrow (2 November) Christophe Gagne from the French Department...
Explore the scary stories of early cultures
31 October 2012Don’t miss the chance to learn about the rich cultures of the early British Isles in a series of free talks and readings at the...
World-renowned astrophysicist to join Cavendish Laboratory
31 October 2012New professor is one of the joint discoverers of a planet orbiting a normal star beyond the Solar System.
Dreaming polar lands with the haunted and damned
31 October 2012The Scott Polar Research Institute invites you to take a trip through the psychic hinterlands of Polar exploration for this year’s Festival of Ideas –...
The role of stem cells in developing new drugs
30 October 2012Cambridge team which developed method to generate liver cells from skin cells has formed a new company to supply stem cell products to the drug...
Householders who use violence against burglars
30 October 2012At the 2012 Conservative Party conference, new Justice Secretary Chris Grayling announced plans to amend the criminal law to ensure that even householders who react...
The body snatchers: corpse and effect
30 October 2012Corpses sold for dissection by body snatchers helped improve understanding of how the human body worked, according to a new book that brings together archaeological...