Opinion: Brexit and the importance of languages for Britain
26 September 2016In the first of a new series of comment pieces written by linguists at Cambridge, Sarah Colvin, Schröder Professor of German and Head of the Department...
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In the first of a new series of comment pieces written by linguists at Cambridge, Sarah Colvin, Schröder Professor of German and Head of the Department...
The number of women in global leadership positions continues to increase, but the change seems one-sided, writes Dr Alice Evans (Geography) on The Conversation website....
New research has found that controlled trophy hunting of lions can actually help conserve the species, but only in areas where hunting companies are given...
Kristen MacAskill describes how an earthquake in her hometown served to influence her career as an engineer.
The first significant investigation into the genomics of Aboriginal Australians has uncovered several major findings about early human populations. These include evidence of a single...
Several major studies, published today, concur that virtually all current global human populations stem from a single wave of expansion out of Africa. Yet one...
It's over a hundred years since the first case of Alzheimer’s disease was diagnosed. Since then we’ve learned a great deal about the protein ‘tangles’...
New study identifies four strategies and two key methods for scaling up social businesses in developing countries in order to meet the unmet needs of...
An algorithm which models how proteins inside cells interact with each other will enhance the study of biology, and sheds light on how proteins work...
Researchers have identified a new mechanism controlling brain development: that neurons not only ‘smell’ chemicals in their environment, but also ‘feel’ their way through the...