Scientists aim to improve photosynthesis to increase food and fuel production
11 April 2011New collaboration aims to address the growing demand for food and fuel by improving the process of photosynthesis.
Cambridge makes Hay
11 April 2011The books that have changed our view of the Universe, eruptions that shook the world and Stalin's fiercest henchmen are just some of the themes...
Benefits by the barrel
09 April 2011Countries rich in oil have long been associated with the "resource-curse paradox" - a principle which states they will suffer, rather than benefit, in the...
Sibling rivalry and brotherly love
08 April 2011Siblings, and even sibling rivalry, can have a positive effect on children’s early development and their ability to form social relationships later in life, according...
All in the script
05 April 2011The power of “scriptural reasoning” to transform the way in which different faiths understand one another is to be the subject of a major lecture...
Scans reveal differences in brain structure of antisocial teens
01 April 2011Brain scans of teenage boys with severe antisocial behaviour have revealed differences in the structure of the developing brain.
Cambridge Ideas - Forgotten Heroes
31 March 2011A Cambridge University archaeologist, along with two other researchers in Guernsey, has uncovered a previously unseen archive featuring the testimonies of people who were deported...
Chinese food for thought
31 March 2011Chinese food contains a hidden recipe for living, a new analysis reveals.
Final newspaper of Captain Scott’s doomed expedition reproduced
31 March 2011The last volume of the expedition newspaper, South Polar Times, written by the men waiting for news of Captain Scott’s return from the South Pole...
Cambridge Ideas: This Icy World
30 March 2011Cambridge University glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the polar regions.