Children’s literature an escape from the adult world
24 September 2011A University of Cambridge academic is to suggest that grown-ups enjoy children’s classics because they are dissatisfied with life in the adult world.
Shift to services is vital for UK industry
23 September 2011Research reveals 12 steps for executives who want to follow a business model innovation approach to service provision.
Drug pushing in the New Europe
23 September 2011A new study reveals how drug reimbursement policy in Poland is leaving gaping loopholes for pharmaceutical firms to exploit, raising questions about other, post-communist, EU...
Excavation shines a light on what the Fens would have looked like 3,000 years ago
23 September 2011Fieldwork by the University’s Cambridge Archaeological Unit will be featured on the BBC’s, ‘Digging for Britain’ programme on Friday 23 September at 9pm.
Aboriginal Australians were first explorers
22 September 2011An old lock of hair has enabled researchers to sequence the genome of an Aboriginal Australian, and show that modern Aboriginal Australians are direct descendants...
The hidden power of moss
22 September 2011Scientists at Cambridge University are exhibiting a prototype table that demonstrates how biological fuel cells can harness energy from plants.
Ping-pong with electrons
21 September 2011Research provides important technique for transferring quantum information.
All is not what it seems: the blurred boundaries between alchemy and medicine
21 September 2011An international conference taking place at Cambridge University later this week will reveal that for many centuries alchemy and medicine were deeply intertwined - both...
Adventures of a palaeolinguist
20 September 2011The curious bronze, knuckle-shaped object pictured is an ancient weight excavated from the east coast of Italy. The inscription scrawled along its side is written...
Cambridge Graduate gets MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
20 September 2011Cambridge graduate Jacob Soll is among this year’s recipients of a Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation in the US.