How will we remember them?
10 November 2011As we approach Remembrance Day, a Cambridge University project that looks at the role of memorials in conflict-torn communities is drawing to a close. By...
Powerful words
09 November 2011Ancient manuscripts that hold important clues to India’s intellectual and religious traditions will be the focus of a new study.
Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan awarded Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship by the Royal Society
08 November 2011The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship scheme supports excellent scientists and engineers at an early stage of their career.
How languages are built
08 November 2011A team of Cambridge linguists has embarked on an ambitious project to identify how the languages of the world are built – from Inuit Yupik...
Royal Society announces prestigious University Research Fellowships for 2011
08 November 2011Seven Cambridge scientists have been appointed University Research Fellows (URFs) for 2011 by The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science.
Known and unknown: great travellers of the Pacific
05 November 2011Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire tells the story of the Pacific Islanders and their early interactions with Western travellers from the viewpoint...
Letters through a lens
04 November 2011The first full history of the General Post Office’s groundbreaking film unit reveals how Britain’s “creative epicentre” during the 1930s brought new levels of realism...
Unconscious language learning
03 November 2011Unconscious learning could be the secret to speeding up learning a second language.
Deep issues: communicating CCS
03 November 2011New research has identified communication gaps that could hinder the deployment of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technologies to mitigate climate change.
New York, unplugged: a day without words
02 November 2011We are addicted to language. By way of proof, Andy Martin – lecturer in the Department of French and author of books on Napoleon, Bardot...