Nature dialogues: whose ecosystem?
01 November 2010Finding the right balance between global and local demands on the natural world could help reduce poverty.
Managing the data deluge
01 November 2010A project at Cambridge University Library is developing services and resources to help academics manage their digital data.
Blueprints for supercomputing success
01 November 2010The University’s High Performance Computing Service has formed a partnership with Dell to address key challenges in research computing.
The Book of Kings: the epic continues
01 November 2010A millennium after its completion, an epic Persian poem is providing the springboard for a new centre of Persian studies in Cambridge.
Reading the world’s oldest libraries
01 November 2010Examples of the world’s oldest science and literature – 2,500-year-old clay writing tablets – hold clues as to how ancient scholars acquired and used knowledge,...
Gender’s many faces
01 November 2010New funding and a generous bequest are helping researchers in Cambridge to explore the complexities of how gender works in the world.
Magical illuminations
01 November 2010Art historian Professor Paul Binski describes his ventures into the gold-embellished world of illuminated manuscripts.
Synthesis made simpler
01 November 2010Research is bringing closer the conversion of simple organic molecules into drugs, plastics or potential new fuels in a single step.
Mobile communications for medicine
01 November 2010Cambridge researchers in collaboration with China Mobile are examining the potential of mobile phones to deliver healthcare in China and worldwide.
Flying high: levitation and energy storage
01 November 2010Research by the Department of Engineering and Boeing is taking advantage of the remarkable properties of superconductors.