Diabetes doubles risk of heart attack and strokes
25 June 2010Having diabetes doubles the risk of developing a wide range of blood vessel diseases, including heart attacks and different types of stroke, researchers in Cambridge...
Green energy from algae
25 June 2010Visitors to this year's Royal Society Summer Exhibition will have a chance to discover how scientists from the University of Cambridge are studying ways to...
When the talking stops
22 June 2010From the collapse of the Doha Development Agenda to the ongoing impasse over climate change, the failure of governments to achieve real progress at the...
Royal Society award given to Cambridge academic
21 June 2010The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, has recognised the work of Dr Andrea Ferrari at the Department of Engineering with one of...
Research award for the battle against glaucoma
16 June 2010A Cambridge University researcher investigating eye cell transplants in the battle against glaucoma has been awarded £200,000 by the Fight for Sight charity.
Report assesses arts and humanities research
10 June 2010Research in the arts and humanities deserves wider recognition for the broad range of palpable contributions it is making to the life of the nation,...
Parkinson’s drug may help cocaine users kick habit
07 June 2010Medication that increases levels of the brain chemical dopamine could open up new ways for helping some heavy users of cocaine and amphetamines kick the...
Too much, too young?
04 June 2010Society risks losing touch with reality in the debate about whether children are being exposed to adult, sexual content too young, because other agendas are...
Cambridge scientists reveal cracks in egg theory
03 June 2010Scientists in Cambridge have found cracks in the long-standing theory that the number of eggs animals have - and the size of those eggs -...
Cleaner fish respond to the shadow of the future
03 June 2010Tropical fish alter their behaviour with an eye to the future, researchers at Cambridge have found. This is the first time such behaviour has been...