Beacons of life and death: chromatin and cancer
01 January 2010A new generation of cancer therapeutics is on the horizon thanks to fresh light being shed on how genes are switched on and off.
Evidence of the first modern humans in North Africa
01 January 2010Excavation of the deepest archaeological trench in North Africa half a century after it was first dug is offering a glimpse of up to 200,000...
Famine’s changing face
01 January 2010Dr Zoltán Tiba’s research on why famines happen is posing questions about the root causes and possible long-term interventions.
Le bon usage: using French correctly
01 January 2010The purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is exploring the reasons...
The educational neuroscience of dyslexia and dyscalculia
01 January 2010For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is helping to understand why.
The future of books
01 January 2010The book publishing industry has gone through more change during the past few decades than in any comparable period in its 500-year history. Professor John...
New funding to untangle Alzheimer’s disease
01 December 2009A major new drive to understand, diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease has begun in Cambridge.
Britain's island heritage: half a million years of history
01 November 2009The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.
The importance of grandmothers in the lives of their grandchildren
29 October 2009It is widely believed that women live long post-reproductive lives to help care for their grandchildren. Now research suggests that the pattern may differ depending...
Gates scholars suggest way forward for Rwanda's leading hospital
23 October 2009Expensive medical equipment is lying unused in Rwanda's leading hospital because it costs too much to use it, a report by enterprising students has found.