Believing is Seeing: a Cambridge Shorts film
09 November 2016Imagination is where ideas start: in the mind’s eye. The ability to think creatively – to dream the impossible – is behind the technological developments...
Weight loss condition provides insight into failure of cancer immunotherapies
08 November 2016A weight loss condition that affects patients with cancer has provided clues as to why cancer immunotherapy – a new approach to treating cancer by...
Opinion: How the UK and India can lead the development of ecologically smart cities
08 November 2016Bhaskar Vira and Eszter Kovacs (Department of Geography and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute) discuss how lessons learned about water management in Nepal and...
A very hairy story
07 November 2016Beards are back in fashion. But today’s hipster styles convey rather different messages to the hair men cultivated in the early modern period. Historian Dr Stefan...
Questions of life and death
04 November 2016An ambitious seminar series began last week with a discussion of a remarkable documentary. Filmed in a pioneering hospice, The Time to Die addresses...
What makes a sand dune sing?
04 November 2016When solids flow like liquids they can make sand dunes sing, and they can also result in a potentially deadly avalanche. Cambridge researchers are studying...
Brexit: High Court ruling on Article 50 explained
03 November 2016In a landmark constitutional judgment handed down today, the High Court has put a stumbling block in the way of the Prime Minister’s plan to...
Ectoplasm, spirit trumpets and paintings from Pompeii: 600 years of Curious Objects
03 November 2016Why does one of the world’s great research libraries have ‘ectoplasm’, a spirit trumpet and beard hair posted to Charles Darwin among its eight million...
Brexit: Listen to experts from Cambridge and beyond discuss how, why and what next for Brexit Britain
02 November 2016Listen to some of the talks that were given as part of the University's 'Brexit Week' series, which took place from 18 - 22 October.
Holbein’s Dance Of Death - the 16th century Charlie Hebdo
02 November 2016He is best remembered for the magnificent portraits he produced as the court painter of Henry VIII; but a new study of Hans Holbein’s famous...