It’s a kind of magic
06 March 2020How trickster birds are helping a psychologist and magician understand how our minds work.
Half billion-year-old 'social network' observed in early animals
05 March 2020Some of the first animals on Earth were connected by networks of thread-like filaments, the earliest evidence yet found of life being connected in this...
Women in STEM: Krittika D'Silva
05 March 2020Krittika D'Silva is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, a Gates Cambridge Scholar and a member of Jesus College....
The Thatcher papers: 1990
03 March 2020The Churchill Archives Centre shines a light on Margaret Thatcher's final year in office.
New tools show a way forward for large-scale storage of renewable energy
02 March 2020A technique based on the principles of MRI and NMR has allowed researchers to observe not only how next-generation batteries for large-scale energy storage work,...
Wine glass size may influence how much you drink in restaurants
28 February 2020The size of glass used for serving wine can influence the amount of wine drunk, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge, funded by...
Learning difficulties due to poor connectivity, not specific brain regions, study shows
27 February 2020Different learning difficulties do not correspond to specific regions of the brain, as previously thought, say researchers at the University of Cambridge. Instead poor connectivity...
Women in STEM: Oluwaseun Ogundele
27 February 2020Oluwaseun Ogundele is a research assistant in the Hendrich Lab at the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. Here, she tells us about her work studying...
Large exoplanet could have the right conditions for life
27 February 2020Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger...
New approaches to help businesses tackle climate change
26 February 2020Climate change could add around 20% to the global cost of extreme weather events by 2040, according to early findings from Cambridge researchers, who are...