Topic description and stories

Year 8 students work with Cambridge researchers to help their peers learn about the census

13 May 2021

Year 8 students work with Cambridge researchers to help their peers learn about the census.

Read more

The man we love to hate: it’s time to reappraise Thomas Robert Malthus

18 May 2016

Thomas Robert Malthus, who was born 250 years ago, became notorious for his ‘principle of population’. He argued that, because poverty was inevitable...

Read more
School girls in the Central African Republic

First comprehensive characterisation of genetic diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa

03 Dec 2014

Researchers from the African Genome Variation Project (AGVP) have published the first attempt to comprehensively characterise genetic diversity...

Read more

1698 tax list from Shrewsbury

Mistress, Miss, Mrs or Ms: untangling the shifting history of titles

06 Oct 2014

In a paper published in the autumn 2014 issue of History Workshop Journal Dr Amy Erickson unravels the fascinating history of the titles used to...

Read more
“Where you are going is more important than how fast you are going”

‘Light skin’ gene mirrors socio-cultural boundaries in Indian population

13 Nov 2013

Latest research shows that the presence of the genetic mutation for lighter skin - found in “almost 100%” of Europeans - broadly conforms to many...

Read more
Cookery class - March 2009

Meals for one: how eating alone affects the health of the elderly

19 Oct 2013

EPIC-Norfolk, a long-term study of health and ageing that recently celebrated its 20th birthday, provides researchers with a wealth of data. Annalijn...

Read more

A landmark study of health and lifestyle celebrates its 20th birthday

09 Oct 2013

A landmark longitudinal study of health in the community will celebrate its 20th anniversary in Norwich tomorrow (10 October). The research, which...

Read more
Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp, on the Kenya-Somalia border. The Horn of Africa frequently experiences severe drought and hundreds of thousands of people have trekked to Dadaab seeking food, water, shelter and safety.

Feeding seven billion

21 Nov 2012

With the world’s population already estimated to be over seven billion and rising fast, the challenge of how to produce enough food has never been...

Read more
Advising older people to help them prepare for the future.

Report backs government-funded older people’s advice service

18 Jan 2012

Analysis of the FirstStop initiative reveals that the service saves money and improves quality of life.

Read more

Festival of Ideas

Festival of Ideas begins!

19 Oct 2011

Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas begins today (19 October).

Read more
Globe

7 billion: The crowded planet

29 Sep 2011

On the eve of the world’s population reaching 7 billion, leading minds discuss what the future holds for our increasingly crowded planet.

Read more
Vegetables

Food security: your questions answered

31 Aug 2011

Over the past month, the University of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century – how...

Read more

Pages