Rethinking eccentricity
01 May 2009Miranda Gill traces shifting 19th-century perceptions of eccentricity, from its association with the intoxicating lure of modernity and fashion to the murky underworld of circus...
Unclouding uncertainty in climate modelling
01 May 2009New understanding of the physics of clouds is helping to model both climate change and the impact of volcanic eruptions and wild fires.
From beyond the grave
01 May 2009Tracing popular beliefs from medieval to early modern times is highlighting the durability of debates about the dead.
Scientists discover ‘dancing’ algae
21 April 2009Scientists at Cambridge University have discovered that freshwater algae can form stable groupings in which they dance around each other, miraculously held together only by...
Scientists issue warning on future of central Arctic
17 April 2009Scientists have warned that world leaders are in a race against time to make key decisions about the future of international co-operation in the Arctic.
Robot scientist becomes first machine to discover new scientific knowledge
02 April 2009Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Aberystwyth University have created a "robot scientist" which the researchers believe is the first machine to have independently...
Germ cells: the route to immortality
01 April 2009How do cells become equipped to generate a whole new organism?
Gender equality in modern times
01 April 2009The largest multidisciplinary research network of its kind in the UK is investigating why gender equality is still a pressing social issue in the 21st...
Cambridge gene hunters find two new breast cancer genes
30 March 2009Two new regions of the human genome linked to breast cancer have been found by an international team of scientists led by Cambridge University researchers;...
Improving cognitive ability through education and health may cut dementia risk
27 March 2009Improvements in education and health could reduce the number of elderly people who suffer from dementia, according to the first study in England to compare...