'Memory wars' of Eastern Europe
01 April 2010A €1 million study will shed light on the role of cultural memory of the soviet era in Russia, Ukraine and Poland.
From library to bookstore
01 April 2010A unique collaboration has resulted in the re-issue of over 1,000 rare books of enduring scholarly value.
Funding to boost scientific links with Japan
01 April 2010Researchers in Cambridge and Japan will be working together towards a more integrated understanding of how stem cells make decisions.
Drug ads still stigmatise mental illness
01 April 2010The way that drugs used to treat mental illness are advertised to doctors could be helping to perpetuate - rather than break down - the...
Policy-makers urged to heed lessons in new handbook
01 April 2010The teaching of literacy and language skills, both in the UK and overseas, needs significant reform to curb the "unproductive" effects of government standardisation, a...
Planning obligations invaluable for affordable housing
26 March 2010The planning obligations which local authorities impose on private developers are successfully raising billions of pounds for local infrastructure and making vital contributions towards roads,...
Jumping to delusions: shortcuts in the brain
24 March 2010Why do some people with mental illnesses entertain bizarre and seemingly irrational beliefs that make their lives a misery?
Scientists find first ever southern tyrannosaur
24 March 2010Scientists from Cambridge, London and Melbourne have found the first ever evidence that tyrannosaur dinosaurs existed in the southern continents. They identified a hip bone...
Discovery could pave the way for quantum computing
17 March 2010Two experimental systems at the forefront of modern physics research - a single trapped ion and a quantum atomic gas - have been combined for...
Study could help predict suicide in older adults
11 March 2010Focussing too much on the present and not using past experience to make decisions could be linked to suicide in elderly depressed adults, researchers from...