Domesday database launched online
09 August 2010An online database which promises to change our understanding of English society on the eve and in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest has been...
Donation is music to University Library’s ears
09 August 2010Cambridge University Library has taken delivery of the personal archive of musician, broadcaster and writer Deryck Cooke (1919-1976).
Trawling survives selling previously discarded fish
03 August 2010Fishermen barely eking out a profit because of overfishing of their target stock, shrimp, are now surviving by selling their bycatch (the low-value fish also...
Bioenergy research blooms in Cambridge
01 August 2010The Bioenergy Initiative is bringing biology and engineering together to address the challenge of meeting our future energy needs.
Personality test to explore rules of attraction
30 July 2010A major new investigation which aims to solve two of the biggest unanswered questions in psychology is being launched by researchers at the University of...
Academics to join British Academy Fellowship
23 July 2010The British Academy has today announced the scholars elected for this year’s Fellowships in recognition of their contribution to the humanities and social sciences.
Why more education lowers dementia risk
23 July 2010A team of researchers from the UK and Finland has discovered why people who stay in education longer have a lower risk of developing dementia;...
Researchers get backing for cosmic vision
19 July 2010A proposal to design a spacecraft that would seek out habitable planets beyond our own solar system could become reality after receiving support from the...
Risk of death higher if born outside working week
15 July 2010Babies born at night or at the weekend are at greater risk of dying due to lack of oxygen (anoxia) than those born during normal...
Core values set new date for birth of the Earth
09 July 2010The Earth could be up to 70 million years younger than scientists previously thought, a study has found.