Brave New World?
17 September 2009British trade unionism was not undermined by Margaret Thatcher, but by the dawn of a new, brutally competitive age that weakened it dramatically in the...
Sharing critical results in the biomedical sciences
10 September 2009Sharing the fruits of research in the biomedical sciences is critical for the advancement of knowledge, yet with the advent of large-scale data gathering following...
The Bird Tango: Cambridge academic fuses love of birds and dance
09 September 2009Nicola Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition, has collaborated with the world-famous Rambert Dance Company to produce a contemporary dance based on the works of Charles...
Prehistoric migrants spread farming in Europe
04 September 2009Central and northern Europe's first farmers were immigrants with barely any ancestral ties to the modern population, a study has found.
Creative research on musical performance
01 September 2009A pioneering research centre studying live musical performance as creative practice launches in the Faculty of Music in October with funding from the Arts and...
Polymer interconnects
01 September 2009The Department of Engineering and Dow Corning are working together to develop low-cost optical interconnects for high-speed data communications.
Dragonsblood: the alchemy of paint
01 September 2009Through his exploration of the science of art, the recipes of medieval artists and the writings of alchemists, art conservation scientist Spike Bucklow sets out...
The Planck satellite: looking back to the dawn of time
01 September 2009The Planck satellite has just reached its orbit, 1.5 million km from Earth, on a mission to understand the origin and evolution of our Universe.
Electronic Laboratory Notebooks for academic research
01 September 2009A pioneering commercial and R&D relationship between the Department of Chemistry and a leading provider of scientific software solutions brings research E-notebooks to Cambridge.
The Greek Bible of the Byzantine Jews
01 September 2009Researchers at the Faculty of Divinity are using ancient manuscript fragments to re-evaluate a forgotten episode of biblical history.