Image shows a variety of cuckoo finches each adapted to mimic a different host species or colour morph

Biological arms races in birds

13 April 2011

New research reveals how biological arms races between cuckoos and host birds can escalate into a competition between the host evolving new, unique egg patterns...

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Hay Festival

Cambridge makes Hay

11 April 2011

The books that have changed our view of the Universe, eruptions that shook the world and Stalin's fiercest henchmen are just some of the themes...

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Oklahoma Sunset Oil Well

Benefits by the barrel

09 April 2011

Countries rich in oil have long been associated with the "resource-curse paradox" - a principle which states they will suffer, rather than benefit, in the...

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Children Walking on Trail

Sibling rivalry and brotherly love

08 April 2011

Siblings, and even sibling rivalry, can have a positive effect on children’s early development and their ability to form social relationships later in life, according...

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Scriptural reasoning.

All in the script

05 April 2011

The power of “scriptural reasoning” to transform the way in which different faiths understand one another is to be the subject of a major lecture...

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