Famine’s changing face
01 January 2010Dr Zoltán Tiba’s research on why famines happen is posing questions about the root causes and possible long-term interventions.
Evidence of the first modern humans in North Africa
01 January 2010Excavation of the deepest archaeological trench in North Africa half a century after it was first dug is offering a glimpse of up to 200,000...
Earthquake research reaches across Europe
01 January 2010Real-time transnational access will enable researchers to participate in experiments all over Europe without leaving the lab.
Innovative tool reveals the paintings hidden within
01 January 2010The development of optics that "fly" over paintings could revolutionise art conservation.
From pandemic to policy: combating swine flu
01 January 2010A new collaborative project aims to understand how pandemic viruses jump the species barrier and spread through communities.
BioBullets mussel in on water mains
01 January 2010Pipes blocked by an invasion of freshwater mussels pose a severe problem to the water industry. A tiny, fat-coated capsule could provide the answer.
The educational neuroscience of dyslexia and dyscalculia
01 January 2010For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is helping to understand why.
A measure of prison performance
01 January 2010Pioneering research by Cambridge criminologists is helping prison managers to understand what makes a good prison.
The future of books
01 January 2010The book publishing industry has gone through more change during the past few decades than in any comparable period in its 500-year history. Professor John...
India and the global knowledge economy
01 January 2010Jaideep Prabhu is the first Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise, which was endowed by the Government of India, and is Director of...