Cambridge researchers awarded ARIA funding
Cambridge researchers have been awarded funding from the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) to use proteins as manufacturing tools to assemble advanced materials, including...
Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record
Researchers may have uncovered the reason why some of Earth’s earliest animals were commonly preserved as fossils – even though they were essentially fragile ‘bags...
Genetic analysis of the world's oldest land animal reveals secret of living 194 years
Researchers studying a giant tortoise named Jonathan say it’s not just good genes, but lack of genetic wear and tear that have kept him going...
What can you learn from a butterfly?
Pollen-eating Heliconius butterflies have remarkable powers of learning and memory. Professor Steve Montgomery is investigating what this can tell us about the evolution of brains...
Anglo-Saxon expats got special treatment in Rome’s “Little England”, coin discovery reveals
The discovery of 20 coins alongside evidence of craftwork provides the first material evidence of the Schola Saxonum in Rome, and suggests it was a...
AI tool for mapping smallholder crops proves itself in Senegal
Food in Senegal is mostly grown on small-scale, rain-dependent farms, leaving much of the population vulnerable to climate shocks, according to the World Food Programme...
Successful woodland expansion in Scotland’s Cairngorms revealed in aerial maps
Researchers have analysed aerial laser scans of huge areas across the Cairngorms Connect partnership in the Scottish Highlands, to produce incredibly detailed maps showing millions...
Cambridge researchers named Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Two Cambridge researchers have been named Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of their exceptional contributions to their fields.
Sex differences in attention are present at birth, study finds
Cambridge scientists have shown that girls and boys show differences in what they pay attention to, even at birth. Since these differences are present so...
Henry VIII's dissolution enforcer stashed a dangerous Catholic manuscript
The identification of six lost pages of a medieval bestseller – illicitly prized by Catholics in the Reformation – exposes the split loyalties of one...