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...
Bright future for British solar company
16 September 2010Solar energy company to develop and manufacture high performance, lower cost plastic solar cells.
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.
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.
Most powerful microscope in the UK unveiled
10 September 2010The most powerful atom resolving microscope in the UK was today revealed at the University of Cambridge. The new electron microscope, which will enable scientists...
To save biodiversity, society’s behaviour must change
09 September 2010Leading conservationists warn that in order to save biodiversity, society's behaviour must change.
Translating science for conservation: bees benefit first
08 September 2010A project to make conservation science accessible and relevant to conservationists and policymakers launches its first major synopsis of evidence, on bee conservation.
The Twilight Zone?
03 September 2010The effect on the teenage brain of books like Twilight and the Harry Potter series is to be examined at Cambridge University.