Opinion: How free are we really?
30 October 2015Priyamvada Gopal (Faculty of English) discusses freedom as a practice rather than a value to be worshipped.
Mirage maker
30 October 2015Aditya Sadhanala wanders over to the wall, turns a pulley, and a wooden box about a metre squared swings up and away. Below it gleams an array of carefully positioned lasers, deflectors and sensors surrounding a piece of glass no bigger than a contact lens. He flips a switch and creates a ‘mirage’.
Breaking the mould: Untangling the jelly-like properties of diseased proteins
29 October 2015Scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified a new property of essential proteins which, when it malfunctions, can cause the build up, or ‘aggregation’, of misshaped proteins and lead to serious diseases.
New design points a path to the ‘ultimate’ battery
29 October 2015Researchers have successfully demonstrated how several of the problems impeding the practical development of the so-called ‘ultimate’ battery could be overcome.
Spiritual violence and the divine revolution of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
29 October 2015In 1879, a young Indian boy arrived in England from Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the state of Bengal, sent by his father to receive a British education. Aurobindo Ghosh showed enormous promise and would go on to receive a scholarship to study classics at King’s College, Cambridge.
Opinion: Can the EU keep the peace in Europe? Not a chance
28 October 2015Chris Bickerton (Department of Politics and International Relations) discusses the role of the European Union.
Phone for a doctor
28 October 2015Worried you might be at risk from diabetes? Check your phone: it might help stop you getting the disease. And if you already have diabetes? Your phone might even help you monitor your condition at home.
How snake bites could help prevent heart attacks
28 October 2015The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, V is for Venomous Snake: an animal that has long evoked fear and curiosity, but is revealing important clues for the development of treatments for some devastating conditions.
Saved from the Nazis in 1938: Schnitzler archive to remain in Cambridge
28 October 2015Saved from destruction by the Nazis and smuggled in secret to Cambridge, the rescue of author Arthur Schnitzler’s archive is as dramatic as any fiction he committed to paper.
Earthquake rocks Afghanistan and Pakistan – an area prone to magnitude 7 quakes
27 October 2015Professor Simon Redfern (Department of Earth Sciences) discusses the devastating earthquake that struck Afghanistan on October 26 and the geological triggers that caused it.
