For the brain, context is key to new theory of movement and memory
24 November 2021Mathematical model could help in physical therapy and shed light on learning more generally.
Oldest Scottish manuscript to go on display in Aberdeen
24 November 2021The Book of Deer, possibly Scotland’s oldest surviving manuscript, is set to return to the north-east of Scotland for the first time in 1,000 years...
Two-metre COVID-19 rule is ‘arbitrary measurement’ of safety
23 November 2021A new study has shown that the airborne transmission of COVID-19 is highly random and suggests that the two-metre rule was a number chosen from...
Mystery of high-performing solar cell materials revealed in stunning clarity
22 November 2021Researchers have visualised, for the first time, why perovskites – materials which could replace silicon in next-generation solar cells - are seemingly so tolerant of...
Reducing the rise of antibiotic resistance
22 November 2021Rising resistance to antibiotics is a worrying prospect, but a success story happening across the farms of the UK gives hope that something can be...
Justinianic Plague was nothing like flu and may have hit England before Constantinople
22 November 2021‘Plague sceptics’ are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that bubonic plague had in the 6th–8th centuries CE, argues a new study based on ancient...
The microbiologist tackling humanity’s next biggest killer
17 November 2021Since childhood Stephen Baker says he had a grim fascination with poo. He caught the bug for microbiology and spent 12 years in Vietnam researching...
John Siberch: Cambridge’s first printer (and record debtor?)
17 November 20212021 is the 500th anniversary of the first works printed in Cambridge
Cambridge Dictionary names 'perseverance' Word of the Year 2021
17 November 2021Perseverance, a word which captures the undaunted will of people across the world to never give up, despite the many challenges of the last 12...
Air filter significantly reduces presence of airborne SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 wards
16 November 2021When a team of doctors, scientists and engineers at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the University of Cambridge placed an air filtration machine in COVID-19 wards, they...