Decline of Bronze Age ‘megacities’ linked to climate change
27 February 2014Climate change may have contributed to the decline of a city-dwelling civilisation in Pakistan and India 4,100 years ago, according to new research.
Scientists wake up to causes of sleep disruption in Alzheimer’s disease
27 February 2014New research using fruit flies with Alzheimer’s protein finds that the disease doesn’t stop the biological clock ticking, but detaches it from the sleep-wake cycle...
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...
Mini-livers show promise to reduce animal use in science
26 February 2014Cambridge 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...
Professor Azim Surani awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship by the Government of India
21 February 2014The Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, announced at the 101st Annual Session of the Indian Science Congress that Professor Azim Surani of the Gurdon...
Soul seller: the man who moved people
20 February 2014People trafficking is a billion-dollar business with a history that spans centuries. A new study identifies the beginnings of the modern trafficker – the men...
How stick insects honed friction to grip without sticking
19 February 2014Scientists 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...
Stress hormones in financial traders may trigger ‘risk aversion’ and contribute to market crises
18 February 2014New 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...
‘Intelligent Trust’, ethno-religious relations and the rise of the food bank
14 February 2014Shana 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...
Rewriting the text books: Cambridge cracks open ‘black box’ of development
13 February 2014We know much about how embryos develop, but one key stage – implantation – has remained a mystery. Now, scientists from Cambridge have discovered a...