Ladder-walking locusts show big brains aren’t always best
22 December 2009Scientists have shown for the first time that insects, like mammals, use vision rather than touch to find footholds. They made the discovery thanks to...
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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...
A major new drive to understand, diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease has begun in Cambridge.
Cambridge researchers have identified a group of traders consistently able to outperform the market, even during the credit crisis.
An ancient South American civilisation which disappeared around 1,500 years ago helped to cause its own demise by damaging the fragile ecosystem that held it...
The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.
It 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...
Professor Paul Cartledge finds that the Greeks, a people rarely known for their wine-making skills, nevertheless laid the foundations for the European wine trade.
Expensive 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.