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Pombe

New database for vital model organism launched

28 Nov 2011

The database, PomBase, important new tool for scientists researching fission yeast.

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Bee in flight

Translating science for conservation: bees benefit first

08 Sep 2010

A project to make conservation science accessible and relevant to conservationists and policymakers launches its first major synopsis of evidence, on...

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Domesday

Domesday database launched online

09 Aug 2010

An online database which promises to change our understanding of English society on the eve and in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest has been...

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15th-century manuscript

A scriptorium of commonplace books

01 May 2010

A digital archive of 500-year-old 'filofaxes' offers extraordinary insight into early thought and writing practices.

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Vulpia grass

Displaying the foundations of evolutionary thinking

01 May 2009

Collaboration between the University Herbarium and Microsoft Research Ltd has made a unique botanical collection available to a world-wide audience...

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Caricature of Darwin riding on a beetle by Albert Way

Mr Darwin’s postbag

01 May 2009

Through the Darwin Correspondence Project, a rich collection of letters held at Cambridge University Library is both transforming our understanding...

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Collie, Rough

New research contributes to pedigree dogs debate

13 Feb 2009

Urgent action is needed to safeguard the welfare of pedigree dogs, according to a new independent scientific report commissioned by the RSPCA and led...

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Winsor and Newton catalogue with painted samples

Gems of colour: pigments of the ‘Colourmen’

08 Feb 2008

Dragon’s Blood, Purple of Cassius and Scarlet Lake – all pigments concocted by the 19th-century 'Colourmen' of Winsor & Newton artists’ suppliers...

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Deposition taken from a witness  to the 1641 Irish rebellion

Rebellion, repression, retribution

01 Feb 2008

John Morrill explores one of the most extraordinary and least understood aspects of Anglo-Irish history - the rebellion of 1641.

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Dictionary

Defining words

01 Sep 2007

Two very different projects in the University have at their heart the ancient craft of lexicography: the art of compiling and editing dictionaries...

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Ear

Can a voice identify a criminal?

01 Sep 2007

Innovative research in the Department of Linguistics suggests that dynamic features of speech could provide a clue to forensic speaker identification...

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Charles Darwin

5000 Darwin letters go online

17 May 2007

"The scheme is a most magnificent one. We spend about two years in South America, the rest of time larking round the world,"; said a young Charles...

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