Security 'obsession' hampering prison debate
26 October 2011Public and government obsession with security is hampering a rational, open debate about prison policy, the former governor of Brixton Prison told a debate at...
Chiral metal surfaces may help to manufacture pharmaceuticals
26 October 2011Research provides insight into novel approach which could be used in pharmaceutical drug synthesis.
Cartographers of the infectious world
25 October 2011Cambridge scientists, and their map-making skills, are contributing to an annual worldwide public health endeavour – the race to select a vaccine against seasonal flu.
Dark matter is smoother than we thought
25 October 2011If a galaxy is seen as a peach, the standard cosmological model portrays dark matter as the ‘pit at its centre’. Now a study of...
Legacies of the legless
25 October 2011How student bingeing gave birth to modern British booze culture.
The politics of speechmaking
24 October 2011Modern politicians are too stuck in a 24/7 media bubble to make the kind of grand speeches associated with past leaders, a debate on political...
Things are getting complicated
24 October 2011In the recent riots looters made off with some of the items that have come to symbolise our materialistic society - trainers, track suits and...
Belief and beyond
23 October 2011In a Festival of Ideas talk for the public this Tuesday, Cambridge University academic Dr David Lehmann will discuss the enduring power of fundamentalist strands...
‘Picture This #9′ – ‘The Fin Whale', Museum of Zoology.
22 October 2011It has been auctioned three times, housed in a cricket ground and owned by the mayor of Hastings.
Cambridge stem cells united
21 October 2011Cohesion, collaboration and clinical impact are the watchwords of a new phase of stem cell research in Cambridge.