Cambridge scholar makes rare 30,000-year-old find.
01 August 2006Archaeologists have unearthed a pair of bone fragments dating back almost 30,000 years and featuring minute designs carved by some of our earliest European ancestors.
Botanic dinosaurs arrive at Cambridge Botanic Garden
17 July 2006Two specimens of one of the world’s oldest and rarest plants, dating back to the time of the dinosaurs, are now on view at the...
Speaking in China
17 July 2006Professor Ian Leslie from the University of Cambridge has spoken as Britain's only representative at a major international conference of university delegates in China.
Wild meerkats school their young
14 July 2006Older meerkats teach younger meerkats how to handle prey.
Clubs pay the price: report shows luck determines football managers' tenure
13 July 2006This was Sven Goran Eriksson's last World Cup as England manager, but according to a recent Cambridge study, his next job may not be based...
Queen's Birthday Honours
16 June 2006The Head of Education at the Fitzwillam Museum and an eminent University astronomer have each been honoured with an OBE in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday...
Business leaders support tougher stance on climate change
08 June 2006The Cambridge Programme for Industry has announced that fourteen senior executives of some of the UK’s leading businesses have approached the Prime Minister offering their...
Scientists Alzheimers research wins medal
03 April 2006A PhD student at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), Richard Page, has been hailed as one of the UK’s top young scientists after...
£3.8 million gift for Conservation Biology
24 March 2006The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund has provided £3.8 million to endow in perpetuity a professorship in Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge.
Generations of astronomers survey the stars
16 February 2006A Cambridge PhD student is following in his great-great-grandfather's footsteps by helping to measure the speeds of up to one million stars passing near the...