Naked Scientists science radio show goes platinum
10 August 2006The ‘Naked Scientists’ do not warrant the alarming image that they inspire. It’s actually an interactive science radio show produced at the University of Cambridge...
Women off the sidelines in time-honoured tennis tour
09 August 2006For the first time ever, women are joining their male counterparts on an 85-year-old tennis tour that climaxes in a showdown between Cambridge/Oxford and Harvard/Yale.
Researchers appeal for new regulations to save coral reefs from live fish trade
04 August 2006Researchers are calling for tighter controls on the live reef fish trade, a growing threat to coral reefs, in letters to the international journal Science.
Cambridge scholar makes rare 30,000-year-old find.
01 August 2006Archaeologists have unearthed a pair of bone fragments dating back almost 30,000 years and featuring minute designs carved by some of our earliest European ancestors.
Speaking in China
17 July 2006Professor Ian Leslie from the University of Cambridge has spoken as Britain's only representative at a major international conference of university delegates in China.
Botanic dinosaurs arrive at Cambridge Botanic Garden
17 July 2006Two specimens of one of the world’s oldest and rarest plants, dating back to the time of the dinosaurs, are now on view at the...
Wild meerkats school their young
14 July 2006Older meerkats teach younger meerkats how to handle prey.
Clubs pay the price: report shows luck determines football managers' tenure
13 July 2006This was Sven Goran Eriksson's last World Cup as England manager, but according to a recent Cambridge study, his next job may not be based...
The richness of our world
05 July 2006At a garden party on Senate House Lawn following the Honorary Degrees congregation, Professor Njabulo Ndebele, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, gave the...
Queen's Birthday Honours
16 June 2006The Head of Education at the Fitzwillam Museum and an eminent University astronomer have each been honoured with an OBE in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday...