Invigorating plants
06 July 2011Understanding how plants ‘silence’ invading viruses could hold the key to releasing their hidden potential.
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Understanding how plants ‘silence’ invading viruses could hold the key to releasing their hidden potential.
To mark the 60th anniversary of his death, an exhibition exploring Wittgenstein’s experiments in photography, and how they relate to his philosophy, can be seen...
Many children and adolescents suffer physically and mentally from being bullied or physically attacked and threatened by their peers. A conference at Cambridge University will...
How can we feed the world’s expanding population? Should we be using GM technologies more to boost the yield of our crops? How will global...
Fundamental research on plant development at the Sainsbury Laboratory will help in the future design of optimal crops.
Progress in electronics has relied heavily on reducing the size of the transistor to create small, powerful computers. Now spintronics, hailed as the successor to...
Beetles use it, birds use it. Plants use it too. Iridescence is the shimmery colour effect that makes things eye-catching.
Jocelin of Furness was one of the most significant writers to emerge from England’s north-west during the Middle Ages, but historians have tended to overlook...
The 2011 Gjønnes Medal in Electron Crystallography will be awarded to Archie Howie (Emeritus Professor, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) and Michael Whelan (Emeritus Professor,...
Cambridge students have tested a parachute capable of safely landing a probe on Mars.