The Case for Children’s Poetry
11 October 2011Morag Styles may be the only Professor of Children’s Poetry out there. Having recently taken up her new role, here she explains why poetry for...
Scientists find mechanism that leads to drug resistance in bacteria causing melioidosis
10 October 2011Researchers have identified a novel mechanism whereby the organism Burkholderia pseudomallei that causes melioidosis, a neglected tropical infectious disease, develops resistance to the standard antibiotic...
The Idea of the University
10 October 2011The idea of the university and the roles assigned to universities in the 21st Century will be the subject of a lecture series beginning in...
A Greek tragedy in health?
10 October 2011Cambridge-led research documents rises in HIV, heroin use, prostitution, homicides and suicides in the wake of the Greek financial crisis.
Born identity revealed in newly-opened archive
07 October 2011A Nobel Prize Medal, a postcard from Einstein and a Hitler-stamped letter of expulsion are among a fascinating archive of documents and other material belonging...
Possible tool to help cocaine users kick the habit
06 October 2011Medicines which increase levels of the brain chemical dopamine may hold the key to helping those addicted to cocaine and amphetamines kick the habit, researchers...
Paterson Medal and Prize
06 October 2011Dr Jochen Guck from the University’s Department of Physics has been awarded the Paterson Medal and Prize for distinguished early career research in applied physics...
Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence
04 October 2011The Lacemaker, one of the great masterpieces of the 17th-century Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer, is to go on display in the UK for the first...
Scientists demonstrate potential new treatment for most common form of infant leukaemia
03 October 2011New drug could treat mixed-lineage leukaemia (MLL).
Prehistoric pre-school
30 September 2011Archaeological research reveals that 13,000 years before CBeebies hunter-gatherer children as young as three were creating art in deep, dark caves alongside their parents.