New Cambridge study measures countries’ well-being
21 December 2011Novel method uses new benchmarks to measure well-being; England ranks in the middle of European countries.
Extreme Sleepover: the importance of being there
21 December 2011Tomorrow we launch a series of 12 articles by Cambridge researchers who tell us about the unfamiliar places where they’ve spent the night in the...
Professor Stephen Hawking’s 70th birthday public symposium
21 December 2011Symposium will focus on ‘The State of the Universe’.
Telling the truth
21 December 2011New research from Cambridge University and others shows that, with sensitive interviewing, young children can be reliable witnesses in cases of abuse.
Why locusts swarm
20 December 2011Protein associated with learning implicated in causing grasshoppers to swarm.
Cambridge Enterprise announces 2011 results
20 December 2011Income generated from the University of Cambridge’s commercialisation activities continued to rise in 2011, as did the number of intellectual property, consultancy and equity agreements...
Why buttercups reflect yellow on chins
14 December 2011Scientists discover why buttercups reflect yellow on chins – and it doesn’t have anything to do with whether you like butter. The new research sheds...
The man with the golden brain
13 December 2011What’s the point of a brain? This fundamental question has led Professor Daniel Wolpert to some remarkable conclusions about how and why the brain controls...
Cambridge gives Newton papers to the world
12 December 2011Isaac Newton’s annotated copy of his Principia Mathematica is among his notebooks and manuscripts being made available online by Cambridge University Library.