Women off the sidelines in time-honoured tennis tour
For the first time ever, women are joining their male counterparts on an 85-year-old tennis tour that climaxes in a showdown between Cambridge/Oxford and Harvard/Yale.
Researchers appeal for new regulations to save coral reefs from live fish trade
Researchers are calling for tighter controls on the live reef fish trade, a growing threat to coral reefs, in letters to the international journal Science.
Cambridge scholar makes rare 30,000-year-old find.
Archaeologists have unearthed a pair of bone fragments dating back almost 30,000 years and featuring minute designs carved by some of our earliest European ancestors.
Speaking in China
Professor Ian Leslie from the University of Cambridge has spoken as Britain's only representative at a major international conference of university delegates in China.
Botanic dinosaurs arrive at Cambridge Botanic Garden
Two specimens of one of the world’s oldest and rarest plants, dating back to the time of the dinosaurs, are now on view at the...
Wild meerkats school their young
Older meerkats teach younger meerkats how to handle prey.
Queen's Birthday Honours
The Head of Education at the Fitzwillam Museum and an eminent University astronomer have each been honoured with an OBE in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday...
Business leaders support tougher stance on climate change
The Cambridge Programme for Industry has announced that fourteen senior executives of some of the UK’s leading businesses have approached the Prime Minister offering their...
Doctor Of Medicine Prizes
Four doctors have received prizes from the University’s School of Clinical Medicine in recognition of outstanding work on their MD dissertations.