What are the real costs of outsourcing abroad?
01 September 2008Many UK manufacturers have transferred their production to low-cost regions to reduce costs. But a new study has discovered that these savings are not as...
Clandestine networks: how dangerous are they?
01 September 2008Terrorist groups, guerrilla movements, drug smuggling: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni asks whether examining the structural weaknesses of illicit networks holds the key to combating them.
Endangered dialects of Aramaic
01 September 2008Current estimates suggest that a language dies every two weeks. Here, Geoffrey Khan describes the documentation of a group of dialects before they are lost...
Enhancing CAPE-abilities in photonics and electronics
01 September 2008A unique model of industrial-academic partnership is demonstrating how UK R&D can stay ahead of the game in a rapidly moving electronics market.
Virtual violins
01 September 2008Why does one violin sound different to another? Investigating this question has brought together researchers from music, engineering, experimental psychology and computer science.
Planning schemes still lack woman’s touch
28 August 2008Local authorities are failing to consider women's needs in their planning schemes, more than a year after legislation designed to stop the problem was introduced,...
Land of the (early) rising sun
20 August 2008They say that early to bed, early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise; but in Japan, it may also be feeding a nationalist...
Secrets of the inerter revealed
19 August 2008A Cambridge University invention which was kept a closely-guarded secret because of the hidden advantage it offered to a Formula 1 racing team is finally...
Judge Business School launches management centre
24 July 2008Academics and industry collaborate to deliver a partnership-based forum for sharing and researching best practice.
One step closer to the Holy Grail of physics
16 July 2008Scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified a key component to unravelling the mystery of room temperature super-conductivity, according to a paper recently published...