Following the money
25 April 2014Does performance-related pay work? Dr Jonathan Trevor explores the issues.
Ireland’s Troy?
23 April 2014As Ireland marks the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf – portrayed as a heroic encounter between Irish and Vikings which defined the nation’s identity...
Overnight home use of artificial pancreas ‘feasible and beneficial’
22 April 2014Children with type 1 diabetes have been able to use pioneering artificial pancreas technology, developed at the University of Cambridge, for the first time overnight...
Innocent landscape or coded message? Artists under suspicion in the First World War
22 April 2014During the First World War artists were widely believed to be spies and, around much of the country, painting became illegal. Research by art historian...
Bulletproof nuclei? Stem cells exhibit unusual absorption property
20 April 2014Stem cells – the body’s master cells – demonstrate a bizarre property never before seen at a cellular level, according to a study published today...
Zero-hours contracts are ‘tip of the iceberg’ of damaging shift work, say researchers
18 April 2014New report shows that zero-hours contracts are only one of a wide number of flexible employment practices that are abused by managers - leading to...
New evidence of suicide epidemic among India’s ‘marginalised’ farmers
17 April 2014Latest statistical research finds strong causal links between areas with the most suicides and areas where impoverished farmers are trying to grow crops that suffer...
Roman dig ‘transforms understanding’ of ancient port
16 April 2014Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Southampton have discovered a new section of the boundary wall of the ancient Roman port of Ostia, proving...
Professor Christopher Dobson awarded 2014 Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics
15 April 2014The Heineken Prize is among the most prestigious in the scientific community, and a recognition of lifetime achievement which is widely regarded as second only...
Naughty money: clippers and coiners in 16th-century England
12 April 2014In 2017 a new £1 coin will appear in our pockets with a design extremely difficult to forge. In the mid-16th century, Elizabeth I’s government came up...