Fancy pants: skirmishes with the fashion police in 16th-century Italy
16 September 2014With the autumn 2014 fashion shows in full swing, all eyes are on the top designers. In 16th-century Italy, the latest looks didn't always go down...
Winton Symposium tackles the challenges of a growing population
15 September 2014On September 29th, the Department of Physics will host the third annual Winton Symposium at the Cavendish Laboratory on the theme of ‘Global Challenges for...
Gaia discovers its first supernova
12 September 2014While scanning the sky to measure the positions and movements of stars in our Galaxy, Gaia has discovered its first stellar explosion in another galaxy...
Putting a value on what nature does for us
11 September 2014Interactive online tool allows the value of an ecosystem to be calculated, and allows users to determine how altering a habitat can affect its economic,...
Tiny sperm, big stories
10 September 2014Sperm will take centre stage at a conference in Cambridge later this week as researchers from a wide range of disciplines gather to consider the...
Library of Congress Fellowships for postgraduate and early career researchers
09 September 2014Four Cambridge researchers receive Library of Congress fellowships.
Understanding the implications of climate change for business
05 September 2014A new online resource, which summarises the implications of climate change for specific sectors of the economy, has been produced and made freely available by...
First graphene-based flexible display produced
05 September 2014A flexible display incorporating graphene in its pixels’ electronics has been successfully demonstrated by the Cambridge Graphene Centre and Plastic Logic, the first time graphene...
Economic success drives language extinction
03 September 2014Thriving economies are the biggest factor in the disappearance of minority languages and conservation should focus on the most developed countries where languages are vanishing...
Global snapshot of infectious canine cancer shows how to control the disease
03 September 2014While countries with dog control policies have curbed an infectious and gruesome canine cancer, the disease is continuing to lurk in the majority of dog...