Telling the truth
21 December 2011New research from Cambridge University and others shows that, with sensitive interviewing, young children can be reliable witnesses in cases of abuse.
Why locusts swarm
20 December 2011Protein associated with learning implicated in causing grasshoppers to swarm.
Cambridge Enterprise announces 2011 results
20 December 2011Income generated from the University of Cambridge’s commercialisation activities continued to rise in 2011, as did the number of intellectual property, consultancy and equity agreements...
Why buttercups reflect yellow on chins
14 December 2011Scientists discover why buttercups reflect yellow on chins – and it doesn’t have anything to do with whether you like butter. The new research sheds...
The man with the golden brain
13 December 2011What’s the point of a brain? This fundamental question has led Professor Daniel Wolpert to some remarkable conclusions about how and why the brain controls...
Cambridge gives Newton papers to the world
12 December 2011Isaac Newton’s annotated copy of his Principia Mathematica is among his notebooks and manuscripts being made available online by Cambridge University Library.
Memory like a fish
09 December 2011The traditional belief that fish have short memory spans may not be as true as we thought. Gates scholar Alex Vail is carrying out research...
The Bronze Age – now in 3D
09 December 2011One of the most important later Bronze Age sites ever discovered in Britain is being excavated near Peterborough, providing a richly detailed, “3D” view of...
Island language in a sea of change
07 December 2011Norman languages spoken in the Channel Islands for a thousand years are now severely endangered. Cambridge linguist Dr Mari Jones has been analysing the languages...