Shear brain power - sheep smarter than previously believed
14 March 2011Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that sheep are more intelligent than previously believed.
Middle aged diabetics can die six years earlier
14 March 2011Having diabetes in mid-life may reduce a person’s life expectancy by an average of six years, according to a large, multinational study coordinated by the...
Diabetes drug improves survival from life-threatening infectious disease
14 March 2011Scientists have identified a diabetes drug which halves the mortality rate of a deadly infectious disease found throughout Southeast Asia and Northern Australia.
Happy children make happy adults
14 March 2011New research links well-being in adolescence with life satisfaction in adulthood.
Fair representation in Europe?
11 March 2011Until now, seats in the European Parliament have been allocated by political bargaining. A fairer way has been devised by an international panel of mathematicians,...
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08 March 2011A new study of wrongdoing and its cultures in Spain from 1800 to 1936 will explore the fascination of popular versions of crime and other...
Extra testosterone reduces your empathy
10 February 2011A new study from Utrecht and Cambridge Universities has for the first time found that an administration of testosterone under the tongue in volunteers negatively...
Artificial pancreas in pregnancy promises fewer diabetes deaths
01 February 2011Cambridge research funded by the health charity Diabetes UK has for the first time successfully demonstrated the potential of an artificial pancreas in pregnant women...
Was the fox prehistoric man’s best friend?
31 January 2011Early humans may have preferred the fox to the dog as an animal companion, new archaeological findings suggest.
Killing Kings
31 January 2011A new study by a Cambridge University criminologist reveals just how dangerous it was to be a monarch in Europe before the modern era.