Was the dawn of man among trees in the cradle of disease?
04 July 2013A student-led conference to be webcast live will ask, in light of recent research, whether the story of human origin is radically different from...
Origins of the Afro Comb: 6,000 years of culture, politics and identity
02 July 2013The 6,000-year history of the Afro Comb, its extraordinary impact on cultures worldwide, and community stories relating to hair today are being explored in a new exhibition...
Cambridge Graphene Centre and Plastic Logic announce partnership
26 June 2013University spin-out will work with the newly-established Cambridge Graphene Centre.
Simulation tools aim to bridge exclusion gap
26 June 2013Simulation gloves and glasses which recreate the effects of moderate impairments have been released by researchers, who say that the designers of many everyday products...
New treatments for pain and MS being developed in open innovation programme
25 June 2013Cambridge researchers developing new therapies as part of a collaborative programme with industry.
Belief that honour killings are ‘justified’ still prevalent among Jordan’s next generation, study shows
20 June 2013New research into attitudes of 15-year-olds in Middle Eastern nation shows that the practice of brutal vigilante justice, predominantly against young women, for perceived slights...
Large Hadron ‘insider’
14 June 2013In a recent talk for TEDx, theoretical physicist Professor Ben Allanach explored the research he undertook during the two years he spent working on the...
Cambridge unveils plans to become Retrofit City
12 June 2013A new network of public and private sector organisations aims to carry out retrofits across Cambridge, bringing down carbon emissions, cutting energy costs, and helping...
Fractal patterns spontaneously emerge during bacterial cell growth
11 June 2013Scientists discover highly asymmetric and branched patterns are the result of physical forces and local instabilities; research has important implications for understanding biofilms and multicellular...
How to care for carers
10 June 2013Carers’ week (10-16 June) will focus on the 6.5 million people who are carers. Many are providing palliative care for a relative or friend at...