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...
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The 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...
Jaideep Prabhu is the first Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise, which was endowed by the Government of India, and is Director of...
The 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 development of optics that "fly" over paintings could revolutionise art conservation.
A new collaborative project aims to understand how pandemic viruses jump the species barrier and spread through communities.
Pipes blocked by an invasion of freshwater mussels pose a severe problem to the water industry. A tiny, fat-coated capsule could provide the answer.
For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is helping to understand why.
Scientists have shown for the first time that insects, like mammals, use vision rather than touch to find footholds. They made the discovery thanks to...
Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that a lowly grape variety grown by peasants, but despised by noblemen, during the Middle Ages was the mother of...
Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that loss of a key segment of DNA can lead to severe childhood obesity. This is the first study to...