Professor Simon Blackburn
01 September 2008A prolific writer and champion of accessible philosophy, Simon Blackburn was honoured this year by the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his...
Clandestine networks: how dangerous are they?
01 September 2008Terrorist groups, guerrilla movements, drug smuggling: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni asks whether examining the structural weaknesses of illicit networks holds the key to combating them.
Planning schemes still lack woman’s touch
28 August 2008Local authorities are failing to consider women's needs in their planning schemes, more than a year after legislation designed to stop the problem was introduced,...
Naked Scientist wins Royal Society award for science communication
28 August 2008Radio presenter and Cambridge academic Dr Chris Smith has won the Royal Society's prestigious Kohn Award for his success in bringing science to a wider...
Land of the (early) rising sun
20 August 2008They say that early to bed, early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise; but in Japan, it may also be feeding a nationalist...
Secrets of the inerter revealed
19 August 2008A Cambridge University invention which was kept a closely-guarded secret because of the hidden advantage it offered to a Formula 1 racing team is finally...
‘Erasing’ drug-associated memories may stop drug addiction relapses
12 August 2008"Erasing" drug-associated memories may prevent recovering drug abusers from relapsing, researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered.
Gender equality on the slide?
06 August 2008Support for gender equality in Britain and the US appears to have peaked and could now be going into decline, research at Cambridge University has...
Glaxosmithkline teams up with Cambridge to deliver new medicines
25 July 2008University of Cambridge to pioneer drug development by academic incubators.
New test may lead to early diagnosis of devastating eye condition
24 July 2008A test to show whether a person may be genetically predisposed to suffer one of the most prevalent forms of blindness in the elderly -...