Using plants to harvest the Sun’s energy
01 September 2007How can we efficiently unlock the bioenergy stored within plants? Research carried out in the Department of Biochemistry is breaking down the cellular barriers.
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How can we efficiently unlock the bioenergy stored within plants? Research carried out in the Department of Biochemistry is breaking down the cellular barriers.
As life expectancy increases, what can historical analysis of longevity tell us about limits to the human lifespan?
Bamboo – one of China’s most precious commodities – is showing great promise as the material of choice for building wind turbines.
Although our brains deteriorate as we get older, Cambridge researchers are finding that some abilities are preserved through ‘flexible’ use of neural networks.
Mark de Rond spent 200 days with the Cambridge University Boat Club as an organisational ethnographer researching the social dynamics of high performance teams.
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Finding the best routes to predicting, preventing and atoning for crime is a thorny issue. Experimental criminologists such as Lawrence Sherman, recently appointed as the...
Two very different projects in the University have at their heart the ancient craft of lexicography: the art of compiling and editing dictionaries. But one...
Each year more than a million avalanches fall worldwide, killing around a hundred people in the Alps alone. Can mathematical models be used to predict...