Benefiting from history
24 February 2012A Cambridge academic’s research into the final days of the Old English Poor Law has thrown up some remarkable parallels to today’s welfare state –...
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A Cambridge academic’s research into the final days of the Old English Poor Law has thrown up some remarkable parallels to today’s welfare state –...
Can digital games and virtual worlds help us save nature? Conservation scientists Bruno Monteferri, Chris Sandbrook and Bill Adams explore whether computer gaming is a...
The President of the World Bank, Robert B Zoellick, is to deliver the biennial Roskill Lecture at Cambridge University’s Churchill College this evening, one of...
Scientists find that micronutrients affect methylation, which has been associated with changes in the immune system.
Jim Ede, creator of Kettle’s Yard, acquired the estate of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska after his death and Kettle’s Yard now contains one of the largest collections...
A new study reveals how the gathering together of conservation organisations in one location – a ‘conservation cluster’ – can work best to reap global...
The epidermis, which is the outer layer of mammalian skin, is maintained by numerous stem cell populations.
Understanding the spread of infectious diseases in populations is the key to controlling them. If the UK was facing a flu pandemic, how could we...
Some of the earliest evidence of prehistoric architecture has been discovered in the Jordanian desert, providing archaeologists with a new perspective on how humans lived...
Scientists have solved one of the ink-jet printing industry's greatest challenges - whether a liquid thread will break up into drops.