The making of a Boat Race crew
01 September 2007Mark de Rond spent 200 days with the Cambridge University Boat Club as an organisational ethnographer researching the social dynamics of high performance teams.
The mathematics of avalanches
01 September 2007Each year more than a million avalanches fall worldwide, killing around a hundred people in the Alps alone. Can mathematical models be used to predict...
Guiding the light
01 September 2007Pioneering research shines new light on our understanding of the way we see the world. Optical fibres have now been found to exist in vertebrate...
Finding the ‘genetic signposts’ of disease
01 September 2007One of the biggest projects ever undertaken to identify genetic variants that predispose some people to certain diseases was begun in 2005, thanks to £9...
Dr Carenza Lewis
01 September 2007A passion for communicating the thrill of the dig and for uncovering evidence of lives long gone is what inspires archaeologist Dr Carenza Lewis. Her...
An invention to help the ageing eye
01 September 2007Progressive loss in accommodative power by the lens of the human eye – a condition known as presbyopia – affects almost everybody who enters middle...
Parasites: the master manipulators
01 September 2007The common view has been that parasitic infections cause disease and must be eliminated. But can we live without them?
Can a voice identify a criminal?
01 September 2007Innovative research in the Department of Linguistics suggests that dynamic features of speech could provide a clue to forensic speaker identification.
Forgotten rival to Pepys finally reaches bookshop shelves
03 August 2007A 900,000-word eyewitness account of life in Restoration England, viewed as a “rival” to Pepys' diary but virtually forgotten since the 1700s, is being published...
Once upon a time in a beautiful garden….
02 August 2007Children and their families can expect a fairytale experience when they visit the Cambridge University Botanic Garden this summer.