“All this cancer talk is new to me, but I do know there isn’t a stage five”
08 December 2017Kate Gross was just 36 years old when she died of cancer. Researchers at Cambridge – including her husband – are trying to ensure that...
Genetics study adds further evidence that education reduces risk of Alzheimer’s disease
07 December 2017The theory that education protects against Alzheimer’s disease has been given further weight by new research from the University of Cambridge, funded by the European...
Clean energy: experts outline how governments can successfully invest before it’s too late
06 December 2017Researchers distil twenty years of lessons from clean energy funding into six ‘guiding principles’. They argue that governments must eschew constant reinventions and grant scientists...
£85 million gift from the Dolby family to transform Cambridge science
06 December 2017The University of Cambridge has received an £85 million gift from the estate of Ray Dolby, founder of Dolby Laboratories and its world-renowned Dolby Noise...
Pop-up mints and coins made from prayers
04 December 2017In the tumultuous upheaval of the English Civil War, Royalist castles under siege used ‘pop-up’ mints to make coins to pay their soldiers. A unique...
Sir Isaac Newton’s Cambridge papers added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register
01 December 2017The Cambridge papers of Sir Isaac Newton, including early drafts and Newton’s annotated copies of Principia Mathematica – a work that changed the history of...
£5.4 million centre will help transform the UK’s construction sector for the digital age
30 November 2017The Government have announced £5.4 million in funding to launch the Centre for Digital Built Britain at the University of Cambridge, which will help people...
Prehistoric women’s manual work was tougher than rowing in today’s elite boat crews
29 November 2017The first study to compare ancient and living female bones shows that women from early agricultural eras had stronger arms than the rowers of Cambridge...
Eye contact with your baby helps synchronise your brainwaves
29 November 2017Making eye contact with an infant makes adults’ and babies’ brainwaves ‘get in sync’ with each other – which is likely to support communication and...
Going underground: Cambridge digs into the history of geology with landmark exhibition
24 November 2017A box full of diamonds, volcanic rock from Mount Vesuvius, and the geology guide that Darwin packed for his epic voyage on the Beagle will...