'Memory wars' of Eastern Europe
01 April 2010A €1 million study will shed light on the role of cultural memory of the soviet era in Russia, Ukraine and Poland.
Funding to boost scientific links with Japan
01 April 2010Researchers in Cambridge and Japan will be working together towards a more integrated understanding of how stem cells make decisions.
Policy-makers urged to heed lessons in new handbook
01 April 2010The teaching of literacy and language skills, both in the UK and overseas, needs significant reform to curb the "unproductive" effects of government standardisation, a...
Planning obligations invaluable for affordable housing
26 March 2010The planning obligations which local authorities impose on private developers are successfully raising billions of pounds for local infrastructure and making vital contributions towards roads,...
Jumping to delusions: shortcuts in the brain
24 March 2010Why do some people with mental illnesses entertain bizarre and seemingly irrational beliefs that make their lives a misery?
Study could help predict suicide in older adults
11 March 2010Focussing too much on the present and not using past experience to make decisions could be linked to suicide in elderly depressed adults, researchers from...
Mother knows best even before birth
10 March 2010Mother birds communicate with their developing chicks before they even hatch by leaving them messages in the egg, new research by a team from the...
Asteroid killed off the dinosaurs
04 March 2010The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of species on Earth, was caused by an asteroid colliding with Earth...
Towards a ‘super-vaccine’ for swine bacterial diseases
01 March 2010A new multidisciplinary research programme aims to develop a single vaccine that will combat four major respiratory pathogens of pigs.
Academic advises on young girls’ body perceptions
26 February 2010A recent study by a Cambridge researcher has uncovered the startling way in which young girls view and feel about their bodies.