Calls for a global nuclear renaissance in new study
Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London today outlined a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear energy. Their research...
Domesday database launched online
An online database which promises to change our understanding of English society on the eve and in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest has been...
Donation is music to University Library’s ears
Cambridge University Library has taken delivery of the personal archive of musician, broadcaster and writer Deryck Cooke (1919-1976).
Trawling survives selling previously discarded fish
Fishermen barely eking out a profit because of overfishing of their target stock, shrimp, are now surviving by selling their bycatch (the low-value fish also...
Bioenergy research blooms in Cambridge
The Bioenergy Initiative is bringing biology and engineering together to address the challenge of meeting our future energy needs.
Personality test to explore rules of attraction
A major new investigation which aims to solve two of the biggest unanswered questions in psychology is being launched by researchers at the University of...
Academics to join British Academy Fellowship
The British Academy has today announced the scholars elected for this year’s Fellowships in recognition of their contribution to the humanities and social sciences.
Why more education lowers dementia risk
A team of researchers from the UK and Finland has discovered why people who stay in education longer have a lower risk of developing dementia...
Researchers get backing for cosmic vision
A proposal to design a spacecraft that would seek out habitable planets beyond our own solar system could become reality after receiving support from the...
Risk of death higher if born outside working week
Babies born at night or at the weekend are at greater risk of dying due to lack of oxygen (anoxia) than those born during normal...