The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way
04 July 2018An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient and dramatic head-on collision between the Milky Way and a smaller object, dubbed ‘the Sausage galaxy’....
How 9,000 lists written over 300 years are helping to test theories of economic growth
03 July 2018The handwritten inventories had lain largely untouched for centuries. Sand used to dry the ink still lay between the pages. Written neatly inside were thousands...
Mend the gap: solving the UK’s productivity puzzle
28 June 2018When it comes to the output, education and wellbeing of the Great British workforce, our towns, cities and regions exist on a dramatically unequal footing....
The stresses and strains of work and unemployment
26 June 2018A stressful workplace can damage your health. But so too can being out of work. Cambridge researchers are trying to understand why both situations can...
Why life on Earth first got big
25 June 2018Some of the earliest complex organisms on Earth – possibly some of the earliest animals to exist – got big not to compete for food,...
Cambridge researchers join new initiative on urban air pollution
25 June 2018Cambridge researchers are part of a cutting-edge project unveiled by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan last week to better understand Londoners’ exposure to air pollution and...
Low-cost plastic sensors could monitor a range of health conditions
22 June 2018An international team of researchers have developed a low-cost sensor made from semiconducting plastic that can be used to diagnose or monitor a wide range...
The fifty-percenters: the economic value of education
22 June 2018Almost half of young people in the UK now go to university. Who gets in – and what and where they study – affects a...
What causes the sound of a dripping tap – and how do you stop it?
22 June 2018Scientists have solved the riddle behind one of the most recognisable, and annoying, household sounds: the dripping tap. And crucially, they have also identified a...
DNA enzyme shuffles cell membranes a thousand times faster than its natural counterpart
21 June 2018A new synthetic enzyme, crafted from DNA rather than protein, ‘flips’ lipid molecules within the cell membrane, triggering a signal pathway that could be harnessed...