Global politics on the agenda at Hay
22 May 2011Ahead of her talk at the Hay Festival, Dr Amrita Narlikar, Director of the University of Cambridge's new Centre for Rising Powers, discusses how countries...
Facing up to Fukushima
20 May 2011In the wake of the disaster at the Fukushima reactor, Japan and other nations are re-evaluating their attitude to nuclear energy. Cambridge academic Tony Roulstone...
300 years of list-making
20 May 2011Personal inventories spanning three centuries are helping researchers unlock the mysteries of how economies edge towards growth and prosperity.
Test highlights benefits of new blood
20 May 2011Old red blood cells shown to have undergone ‘significant changes and damage’; techniques could help rapidly monitoring quality of blood supply.
Polar Museum short listed for £100,000 Art Fund Prize
19 May 2011The Polar Museum at Cambridge University's Scott Polar Research Institute, has been short listed for the Art Fund Prize 2011 – the £100,000 prize for...
Forgotten archive shines new light on turbulent 1930s
19 May 2011Previously unseen photos of Adolf Hitler at the Nuremberg Rally of 1937 have been uncovered by a Cambridge PhD student in the archive of George...
Exploding the ivory tower myth
17 May 2011Academia makes a considerable and valued contribution to society that goes far beyond commercialisation of applied research, as Professor Alan Hughes, co-author of the first...
Test could detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier
16 May 2011Innovation on the strength of a simple test identified in a new study would enable intervention before damage is done.
What price a human kidney?
14 May 2011A public talk at Cambridge University on Saturday will draw attention to the growing illegal trade in human organs and invite discussion of the complex...
SPRI memorial remembers lost Britons
13 May 2011A memorial dedicated to Britons who lost their lives in the service of science in Antarctica has been unveiled at the Scott Polar Research Institute.