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Watersprite: The Cambridge International Student Film Festival continues to grow in strength, attracting submissions from across the globe. This year, they welcome the director of several Harry Potter films and a host of the best young filmmakers.
Dr Andrew Gillis shows us an embryonic skate head and explains how the red denticles dotted all over it have very similar properties to human teeth.
Two free talks for the public during Open Cambridge (Saturday, 10 September) will give an insight into important day-to-day aspects of the history of town and gown – what people wore and how they travelled.
Mathematical modelling is an important weapon in the armoury against crop disease, as plant epidemiologists demonstrated when they turned their sights on root madness in sugar beet.
Faced with filling in the 2011 census form plenty of people will be tempted to put frivolous answers into the boxes asking for details about their lives. 200 years ago, a Norfolk vicar had similar ideas.
A new enterprise and innovation programme will enable businesses and jobs to be created across the Eastern region, it has been announced.
An academic industrial consortium is developing the scientific know-how to underpin a printing revolution.
A new Centre for Children’s Literature is providing a focus for research on how children are shaped by early encounters with books and film.
A regional knowledge transfer project is linking the region's top plant science research with businesses wanting to develop new products.
The University of Cambridge will host one of just three genetic research hubs created by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to provide scientists access to cutting-edge resources for DNA sequencing.
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