Death by monoculture
02 September 2011Having just returned from a year spent documenting the language and culture of the remote Inughuit community of north-western Greenland, Dr Stephen Leonard describes how...
Inside Britain’s biggest Iron Age fortress
01 September 2011A major excavation at Britain’s biggest Iron Age hill-fort has begun in Somerset, in the hope that it will at last enable historians to explain...
Food security: your questions answered
31 August 2011Over the past month, the University of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century – how...
Professor Lawrence Sherman awarded Benjamin Franklin Medal
31 August 2011The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London will award the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Medal to the Wolfson...
Graphene goes plasmonic
30 August 2011Researchers have discovered a crucial recipe for improving the characteristics of graphene devices for use as photodetectors in the next generation of pholtovoltaic devices for...
A brighter forecast for weather-beaten Britain?
22 August 2011Ever headed out for the day expecting bright sunshine, only to end up getting soaked in a downpour instead? If you’re reading this in the...
Placing water into the picture for climate change
22 August 2011As World Water Week, an annual week-long global conference on water provision and sustainability, begins in Stockholm, Dr Douglas Crawford-Brown explains how the world needs...
Dr Darin Weinberg wins Pollner Prize
20 August 2011Dr Darin Weinberg’s book ‘Of Others Inside: Insanity, Addiction and Belonging in America’, published by Temple University Press, has won the American Sociological Association Pollner...
Cambridge academics to receive prestigious psychology award
16 August 2011Two Cambridge academics have been selected as the joint recipients of one of the most prestigious honours for scientific achievement in the field of psychology.
Number of genes associated with MS doubles
11 August 2011Critical insight provided into the disease mechanisms behind multiple sclerosis.