Cambridge to play major role in €400m EU food innovation project
13 December 2016The University of Cambridge is one of a number of British universities and companies that have won access to a £340 million EU Innovation programme...
Antarctic Ice Sheet study reveals 8,000-year record of climate change
12 December 2016An international team of researchers has found that the Antarctic Ice Sheet plays a major role in regional and global climate variability – a discovery...
Cutting welfare to protect the economy ignores lessons of history, researchers claim
02 December 2016Amid ongoing welfare cuts, researchers argue that investment in health and social care have been integral to British economic success since 1600.
How single-celled organisms navigate to oxygen
01 December 2016A team of researchers has discovered that tiny clusters of single-celled organisms that inhabit the world’s oceans and lakes, are capable of navigating their way...
Teenagers could see long-term benefits from new treatments for depression
01 December 2016More than two-thirds of adolescents who suffer from depression could see long-term benefits from receiving one of three psychological treatments – of which only one...
Hard Brexiter or ardent Remainer? Psychologists aim to find out what drives our political ideologies
01 December 2016At a time of increasing divisions within politics – think of the recent battles over whether the UK should remain in or leave the European...
Enhanced CRISPR lets scientists explore all steps of health and disease in every cell type
29 November 2016Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge have created sOPTiKO, a more efficient and enhanced inducible CRISPR genome editing platform....
Opinion: Latest Brexit legal challenge will not be ‘back door’ to Single Market
28 November 2016Failure to invoke Article 127 of the EEA Agreement will not keep the UK in a Single Market by the back door after Brexit. The...
Inspiring images invite you into the world of engineering
28 November 2016It could be a crystal ball from a mythical age showing the swirling mists of time, but James Macleod’s image, which has won this year’s Department...
Environmentally-friendly graphene textiles could enable wearable electronics
25 November 2016A new method for producing conductive cotton fabrics using graphene-based inks opens up new possibilities for flexible and wearable electronics, without the use of expensive...