Recharging energy research
28 September 2009A new phase of research harnessing materials for rechargeable batteries is beginning in the Department of Chemistry.
Clean technology cleans up
28 September 2009Despite the economic downturn, four University spin-out clean tech companies have received over £12 million in funding.
Voices of vanishing worlds
28 September 2009A new project is recording and making accessible the endangered oral literatures of indigenous peoples before they are lost forever.
New route to Leukaemia uncovered
28 September 2009Scientists have discovered a completely new route by which leukaemia develops, according to research published in Nature this weekend.
Call to drive the next industrial revolution
23 September 2009Industrialists, academics and government should join forces to drive a new industrial revolution which would help tackle climate change, says a new report.
Business leaders call for ambitious global deal on climate change
22 September 2009The business leaders of over 500 companies from around the world will this morning publish The Copenhagen Communiqué calling on world leaders to agree "an...
Brave New World?
17 September 2009British trade unionism was not undermined by Margaret Thatcher, but by the dawn of a new, brutally competitive age that weakened it dramatically in the...
Sharing critical results in the biomedical sciences
10 September 2009Sharing the fruits of research in the biomedical sciences is critical for the advancement of knowledge, yet with the advent of large-scale data gathering following...
The Bird Tango: Cambridge academic fuses love of birds and dance
09 September 2009Nicola Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition, has collaborated with the world-famous Rambert Dance Company to produce a contemporary dance based on the works of Charles...
Prehistoric migrants spread farming in Europe
04 September 2009Central and northern Europe's first farmers were immigrants with barely any ancestral ties to the modern population, a study has found.