Mexico

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Young leaders from UK and Latin America tackle future at Shaping Horizons

11 Sep 2019

More than 100 future leaders from the UK and Latin America have gathered at the University of Cambridge to discuss the future of work and education...

Scientists measure severity of drought during the Maya collapse

02 Aug 2018

The severity of drought conditions during the demise of the Maya civilisation about 1,000 years ago has been quantified, representing another piece...

Biggest library of bat sounds compiled to track biodiversity

14 Apr 2016

Researchers have compiled the largest known library of bat calls to identify and conserve rare species in Mexico – a country which is home to many of...

Mexican Howler Monkey, Credit: Arturo González Zamora

High stress levels found in monkeys forced to spend more time foraging

24 Jan 2013

New research shows that disturbed habitats are resulting in increasingly poor diets for monkeys, and that the additional time and energy required to...

Prize tomato

30 May 2012

A group of students on the University of Cambridge’s MPhil course in Engineering for Sustainable Development has devised a project that will help...

Newman: The Catholic pin-up pinned down

02 Jun 2010

John Cornwell, director of Jesus College's Science and Human Dimension project, is also the author of a new biography of Cardinal John Henry Newman...

Asteroid killed off the dinosaurs

04 Mar 2010

The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of species on Earth, was caused by an asteroid colliding...

Engaging with Inuit communities

01 Jan 2009

At first glance, reasons for researching locations as different as the Arctic and Mexico are not self-evident. But comparison is at the core of...

Six University scholars elected to British Academy

18 Jul 2008

Six Cambridge academics have been made Fellows of the British Academy in the latest round of elections to the prestigious organisation for scholars...