Wash cycle: making organs fit for transplantation
20 July 2016There’s a nationwide shortage of suitable organs for transplanting – but what if some of those organs deemed ‘unsuitable’ could be rejuvenated? Researchers at Addenbrooke’s...
Opinion: As ARM enjoys a Japanese embrace, the lessons it can teach UK tech firms
19 July 2016Peter Williamson (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the sale of Cambridge-based technology firm ARM Holdings to Japan's Softbank for £24 billion.
Time travelling to the mother tongue
19 July 2016The sounds of languages that died thousands of years ago have been brought to life again through technology that uses statistics in a revolutionary new...
Slow, slow, quick quick, slow: Scientists discover how proteins in the brain build up rapidly in Alzheimer’s disease
18 July 2016Cambridge researchers have identified – and shown that it may be possible to control – the mechanism that leads to the rapid build-up of the...
Why be human when you can be otherkin?
16 July 2016As social beings, a sense of identity plays an important role in our relations – and in our own happiness. But identity doesn’t have to...
Planets similar to Jupiter are likely able to form on orbits shorter than the Earth’s
15 July 2016After analyzing four years of Kepler space telescope observations, astronomers from the University of Toronto, and of the University of Cambridge have given us our...
Biodiversity should be focus of businesses’ efforts to mitigate their environmental impact, says new report
14 July 2016Biodiversity, the variety of plant and animal life in the world, is a fundamental component of ‘natural capital’ that businesses are dependent upon but which...
Latest archaeological finds at Must Farm provide a vivid picture of everyday life in the Bronze Age
14 July 2016Excavation of a site in the Cambridgeshire fens reveals a Bronze Age settlement with connections far beyond its watery location. Over the past ten months,...
Obesity linked to premature death, with greatest effect in men
14 July 2016A study of 3.9 million adults published today in The Lancet has found that being overweight or obese is associated with an increased risk of...
Gravitational vortex provides new way to study matter close to a black hole
12 July 2016An international team of astronomers has proved the existence of a ‘gravitational vortex’ around a black hole, solving a mystery that has eluded astronomers for...