'Extreme Sleepover #4’ - religious fervour and fireworks in the Peruvian Andes
25 December 2011In the fourth of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, historian Dr Gabriela Ramos travels to a village high in the Andes to...
‘Extreme Sleepover #3’ – gathering the views of indigenous women in rural Ecuador
24 December 2011In the third of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, geographer Dr Sarah Radcliffe describes her work with women from impoverished indigenous communities...
‘Extreme Sleepover #2’ – a night in Ghana’s tropical forest
23 December 2011In the second of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, zoologist Dr Ben Phalan ventures into a tropical forest to understand the impact...
'Extreme Sleepover #1’ – breathless at Everest base camp
22 December 2011In the first of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, physiologist Dr Andrew Murray studies responses to extreme altitude as part of a...
Search and rescue: scientists identify a novel therapy with potential for treating Parkinson’s disease
22 December 2011A collaboration between virologists and neuroscientists at Cambridge University has demonstrated how viruses that cross the blood/brain barrier could be exploited to slow down, or...
New Cambridge study measures countries’ well-being
21 December 2011Novel method uses new benchmarks to measure well-being; England ranks in the middle of European countries.
Extreme Sleepover: the importance of being there
21 December 2011Tomorrow we launch a series of 12 articles by Cambridge researchers who tell us about the unfamiliar places where they’ve spent the night in the...
Professor Stephen Hawking’s 70th birthday public symposium
21 December 2011Symposium will focus on ‘The State of the Universe’.
Telling the truth
21 December 2011New research from Cambridge University and others shows that, with sensitive interviewing, young children can be reliable witnesses in cases of abuse.
Why locusts swarm
20 December 2011Protein associated with learning implicated in causing grasshoppers to swarm.