‘Sex, scandal and sermon’ in medieval Spain
08 February 2008A new study of the 14th-century narrative poem Libro de Buen Amor explores how its earthy tales of failed love are shaped by humour.
Translating research from bench to bedside
08 February 2008Recent funding of over $5 million to Dr Sabine Bahn by the Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI) raises diagnostic and therapeutic hopes for a group...
Gems of colour: pigments of the ‘Colourmen’
08 February 2008Dragon’s Blood, Purple of Cassius and Scarlet Lake – all pigments concocted by the 19th-century 'Colourmen' of Winsor & Newton artists’ suppliers. Now, a painstaking...
Egyptology in prisons
08 February 2008The project Accessing Virtual Egypt is breaking new ground in knowledge transfer between museums and prisons, with empowering results
Bringing together the Book of Kings
08 February 2008The Shahnama Project is building a powerful online resource that will stimulate research and interest in Persian cultural history.
Asking ‘are you awake?’ with brain imaging
08 February 2008Even though we might be able to hear someone speaking, our powers for understanding what is actually being said switch off as we go to...
Sunny times ahead for solar power
08 February 2008A new initiative funded by the Carbon Trust hopes to make solar power an affordable choice for homeowners within 10 years.
Modelling uncertainty in the game of Go
01 February 2008Cambridge researchers have analysed millions of patterns of potential moves to model the uncertainty of play in the ancient game of Go.
Can machines reason?
01 February 2008Humans often use diagrams for reasoning, but can computers do the same?
In search of lost memories
01 February 2008‘I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. […] And suddenly the memory...