Following the huge success of BBC Radio 5 live’s inaugural Science Night last December, the University of Cambridge’s Dr Chris Smith and his fellow ‘Naked Scientists’ will return to present Science Night 2 on Sunday 19 August from 7.00pm.
A new book by a Cambridge professor offers an alternative to the narratives of nature’s annihilation, by shining a light on conservation success stories that otherwise get lost in the deluge of dire warnings.
Cambridge scientists have used an age-old fable to help illustrate how we think differently to other animals.
The researchers are recognised for 'the excellence of their work and the profound implications their findings have had for others'.
A mechanism regulating our sensation of cold has been identified.
Researchers discover novel trapping mechanism for Nepenthes gracilis pitchers.
A book written for the general reader, Betrayed by Nature: The War on Cancer by Dr Robin Hesketh, sets out in plain English what goes wrong in our bodies when cells begin to replicate in an abnormal manner, and what science is doing to address the disease that kills seven million people every year.
Research reconciles competing theories about the origin of the domestic horse.
Cambridge University researchers, funded by the BBSRC, have shed new light on a common food poisoning bug.
Scientists have created a simple new model of the human brain which reproduces the statistics of its complex network organization.
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