Home from home: minor moves make major differences
26 February 2014Most of the moves we make are within 5 km of our previous addresses, yet these short migrations are highly significant within individual lives. New...
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Most of the moves we make are within 5 km of our previous addresses, yet these short migrations are highly significant within individual lives. New...
Cambridge research that has for the first time successfully grown “mini-livers” from adult mouse stem cells has won the UK’s international prize for the scientific...
The Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, announced at the 101st Annual Session of the Indian Science Congress that Professor Azim Surani of the Gurdon...
People trafficking is a billion-dollar business with a history that spans centuries. A new study identifies the beginnings of the modern trafficker – the men...
Scientists have discovered that, when upright, stick insects don’t stick. Instead, they deploy special hairy pads designed to create huge amounts of friction from the...
New study’s findings overturn theory of personal risk preference as a ‘stable trait’, and show that real source of instability in risk behaviour “lurks deep...
Shana Cohen and Ed Kessler discuss how individuals of different ethno-religious backgrounds in Europe can learn to trust each other, and how community-building initiatives in...
We know much about how embryos develop, but one key stage – implantation – has remained a mystery. Now, scientists from Cambridge have discovered a...
In a talk on 17 February, Margaret Carlyle, a researcher in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, will explore the fascinating (often gruesome)...
The genome of a child who died some 12,600 years ago in Montana – the oldest known human remains from North America – has been...