Whos the boss? Why female meerkats come out on top
22 December 2006A new study by the Kalahari Meerkat project of the University of Cambridge shows that female meerkats fight more than their male counterparts for dominance.
Science award boosts physics research at Cambridge
21 December 2006The University of Cambridge is to form one third of a new £6 million research collaboration looking at quantum physics.
Churchill borrowed some of his biggest ideas from HG Wells
27 November 2006Winston Churchill was a “closet science-fiction fan” who borrowed the lines for one of his most famous speeches from H. G. Wells, a Cambridge academic...
Grand Mufti to speak at Cambridge
02 November 2006Egypt’s highest-ranking Muslim official, the Grand Mufti Dr Ali Goma, will be speaking at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge this evening.
University research team wins major housing contract
24 October 2006A Cambridge University research group has been awarded a major contract to analyse trends affecting affordable housing in England.
Cambridge excels in world ranking
04 October 2006The University of Cambridge comes second in the Times Higher Education Supplement’s 2006 ranking of world universities.
Cambridge students triumph at science, engineering and technology awards.
02 October 2006Two Cambridge students have collected prizes at the UK’s most important awards ceremony for science and engineering undergraduates.
Cambridge academic named 'Most Entrepreneurial Scientist'
26 September 2006Professor Christopher Lowe, at the Institute for Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, has been named the ‘Most Entrepreneurial Scientist of the United Kingdom’.
Scientists develop technology for roll-up laptop screens
21 September 2006New ‘morphing’ structures have multiple applications
Cambridge teaching for adult learners enters cyberspace
04 September 2006Adult learners are to be given the chance to study everything from climate change to ancient Rome online with the University of Cambridge, starting this...