Feelings by phone
28 September 2010A system which enables psychologists to track people's emotional behaviour through their mobile phones has been successfully road-tested by researchers.
Antidepressants can alter peoples’ moral judgement
28 September 2010The most common type of antidepressants, serotonin enhancers, alters peoples moral judgement and leads to a reduction in aggressive behaviour, a study published today in...
Cambridge becomes a home for Ukrainian Studies
28 September 2010A major gift from prominent Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash to the University of Cambridge has permanently endowed Western Europe's premier programme in the study of...
Schoolgirls unearth Roman village under College garden
22 September 2010It may look peaceful today, but Newnham College, Cambridge was once the site of a sprawling Roman settlement.
Reassessing the industrial revolution
21 September 2010It was the dawn of an age of prosperity and transformed Britain into an economic superpower but our rose-tinted view of the industrial revolution masks...
First biodiversity symposium looks to future
16 September 2010Cambridge Conservation Initiative’s (CCI), inaugural symposium, held on Wednesday, focused on how to conserve natural capital and the future of biodiversity.
Bright future for British solar company
16 September 2010Solar energy company to develop and manufacture high performance, lower cost plastic solar cells.
Bleak housing
15 September 2010Britain faces a future of more volatility in the housing market and worsening housing affordability if drastic measures are not taken, senior academics are to...
Scientists plot key sites for tiger’s last stand
14 September 2010Efforts to protect the wild tiger should be intensively focused on a few key sites if conservationists are to have any chance of saving it...
Biofuel from inedible plant material easier to produce
13 September 2010Researchers have discovered key plant enzymes that normally make the energy stored in wood, straw, and other non-edible parts of plants difficult to extract.