Fair representation in Europe?
11 March 2011Until now, seats in the European Parliament have been allocated by political bargaining. A fairer way has been devised by an international panel of mathematicians,...
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08 March 2011A new study of wrongdoing and its cultures in Spain from 1800 to 1936 will explore the fascination of popular versions of crime and other...
Enter the Map of Life and meet a thorny devil
03 March 2011A new website that explains why humans have the same type of eye as an octopus and how animals separated by millions of years can...
New cell death mechanism has implications for breast cancer treatments
25 February 2011A novel mechanism of cell death that occurs in mammalian organisms has been revealed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.
Extra testosterone reduces your empathy
10 February 2011A new study from Utrecht and Cambridge Universities has for the first time found that an administration of testosterone under the tongue in volunteers negatively...
Immune interaction optimises foetal nourishment during pregnancy
08 February 2011Paternal genes advise maternal immune cells on how to build the best womb for developing foetuses, researchers have found.
A masterpiece of biblical proportions
01 February 2011Home to more than seven million books, Cambridge University Library is to celebrate the most influential, most bought, most read and most widely disseminated English...
Ancient body clock discovered that helps to keep all living things on time
01 February 2011The mechanism that controls the internal 24-hour clock of all forms of life from human cells to algae has been identified by scientists.
Artificial pancreas in pregnancy promises fewer diabetes deaths
01 February 2011Cambridge research funded by the health charity Diabetes UK has for the first time successfully demonstrated the potential of an artificial pancreas in pregnant women...
Was the fox prehistoric man’s best friend?
31 January 2011Early humans may have preferred the fox to the dog as an animal companion, new archaeological findings suggest.