Can I patent and publish?
01 September 2007A patent for an invention is granted by the state to an inventor, giving the inventor the right for a limited period to stop others...
Parasites: the master manipulators
01 September 2007The common view has been that parasitic infections cause disease and must be eliminated. But can we live without them?
An invention to help the ageing eye
01 September 2007Progressive loss in accommodative power by the lens of the human eye – a condition known as presbyopia – affects almost everybody who enters middle...
Can a voice identify a criminal?
01 September 2007Innovative research in the Department of Linguistics suggests that dynamic features of speech could provide a clue to forensic speaker identification.
Going feral
01 September 2007Are there any wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Robert Macfarlane has travelled in search of them, reflecting on the meaning of ‘wildness’ and...
Hunting for protostars
01 September 2007Looking deep inside the swirling dust clouds that make up stellar nurseries – the birth place of stars – can help unravel mysteries of the...
Arsenic in drinking water a global threat to health
29 August 2007Arsenic in drinking water is threatening the health of people in more than 70 countries around the globe, according to new research presented today.
Forgotten rival to Pepys finally reaches bookshop shelves
03 August 2007A 900,000-word eyewitness account of life in Restoration England, viewed as a “rival” to Pepys' diary but virtually forgotten since the 1700s, is being published...
Once upon a time in a beautiful garden….
02 August 2007Children and their families can expect a fairytale experience when they visit the Cambridge University Botanic Garden this summer.
The singing professor
01 August 2007University of Cambridge Professor Ron Laskey will be singing more of his "Songs for Cynical Scientists" at an evening of science comedy and cabaret tonight...