Poets of the Caribbean
05 October 2011A new initiative which aims to give English teachers the confidence and skills to use more Caribbean poetry in lessons has been launched by an...
Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence
04 October 2011The Lacemaker, one of the great masterpieces of the 17th-century Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer, is to go on display in the UK for the first...
Scientists demonstrate potential new treatment for most common form of infant leukaemia
03 October 2011New drug could treat mixed-lineage leukaemia (MLL).
PCs to blame for rise in stressed out workers
30 September 2011New research shows early adoption of PCs led to a rise in work intensity in the UK
Prehistoric pre-school
30 September 2011Archaeological research reveals that 13,000 years before CBeebies hunter-gatherer children as young as three were creating art in deep, dark caves alongside their parents.
7 billion: The crowded planet
29 September 2011On the eve of the world’s population reaching 7 billion, leading minds discuss what the future holds for our increasingly crowded planet.
I’d love to smash the Ritz…
29 September 2011Social psychologist and best-selling author Dr Kevin Dutton, Research Fellow at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, puts the recent riots under the microscope...
‘Picture This #6′ – Samuel Butler's translation of the 'Odyssey', St John's College.
28 September 2011Samuel Butler was a man with big ideas and a big imagination. He wrote on literature, science, art and religion, always thinking outside the box...
Confronting homophobia in South Africa
27 September 2011Cambridge academic Dr Andrew Tucker champions a direct approach to challenging the homophobia that destroys so many lives in South Africa. He has helped to...
Magic and medicine
27 September 2011A digital resource dedicated to Simon Forman, the notorious, self-styled astrologer-physician, later dubbed the 'Elizabethan Pepys', has been launched to mark the 400th anniversary of...