Can Hollande live up to expectations?
18 May 2012As Francois Hollande takes up his seat as President of France, will he be able to live up to the huge expectations of those who...
Bronze Age Facebook
18 May 2012Large clusters of rock art spanning thousands of years but located at the same site may hold key to detecting massive cultural changes in prehistoric...
Intoxicating history
18 May 2012In tracing the modern history of Germany’s policy on intoxicant and drug use, which favours therapy rather than punishment, Cambridge historian Dr Victoria Harris highlights...
Encounters in medieval matrimony
17 May 2012Scholars from five different institutions, and both Christian and Muslim backgrounds, will gather in Cambridge tomorrow to look at medieval Islamic marriage and how it...
The End Of Honecker
17 May 2012A film about the downfall of the East German head of state, Erich Honecker, which includes an astonishing interview with his apparently unrepentant widow, will...
Frugal innovation
17 May 2012Co-author of recently published book 'Jugaad Innovation', Professor Jaideep Prabhu argues that a frugal and flexible approach to innovation can generate breakthrough growth not only...
Butterfly genome reveals a promiscuous past
17 May 2012An international collaborative study to map the genome of a South American butterfly has identified the secret behind its mimetic nature.
Grey days in empty places
16 May 2012A show at the Fitzwilliam Museum featuring the work of contemporary British artists Michael Landy and George Shaw explores the places in between town and...
A new dimension to DNA and personalised medicine of the future
16 May 2012By investigating the existence of an unusual four-stranded structure of DNA in human cells, scientists have opened the door to novel cancer therapeutics and a...
Cambridge Language Sciences launched
15 May 2012The University launched its new Strategic Initiative in Language Sciences at a special one-day conference at Newnham College on 12 May, attended by over 90...