5000 Darwin letters go online
17 May 2007"The scheme is a most magnificent one. We spend about two years in South America, the rest of time larking round the world,"; said a...
Pieces de Resistance: The tacit defiance of the Channel Islands
09 May 2007Cambridge University study charts the symbolic resistance of the Channel Islanders during the occupation of World War II.
Cells make meal of Huntington's disease
08 May 2007University of Cambridge researchers have developed a novel strategy to tackle neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's disease: encouraging an individuals own cells to “eat” the...
Happy Danes are here again
17 April 2007Denmark tops the bill in a European happiness survey – but Britain is gloomier than most of its EU peers
Anything on the hearth tonight, love?
13 April 2007A new study suggests the TV dinner is the evolutionary next step in the history of dining.
Food and medicine in classical Greece: the ‘blurred boundary’
01 April 2007What distinguishes a drug from food? Laurence Totelin traces the emergence of a definition in ancient Greece.
A strange way to share food
01 April 2007Close scrutiny of the ancient remains of our ancestors’ meals gives us some sense of the development and rationale behind our strange food-sharing behaviour.
You are what you eat: Investigating nutrition and cancer
01 April 2007We all know that a good diet is key to good health, but it's now clear that certain foods we eat can unmask underlying susceptibilities...
Why are we so fat?
01 April 2007For some people, the urge to eat is uncontrollable. Cambridge scientists have taken us a step closer to understanding the causes of obesity by studying...
Chocolate heaven: Food-engineering research using MRI
01 April 2007Chocolate manufacture is an age-old process that can be traced back to the Maya Indians. Over a thousand years later, MRI is being used to...