To the death
13 July 2015Dr John Leigh has written the first book exclusively devoted to the duel in literature. In Touché, he offers a compelling picture of the ways...
New research allows doctors to image dangerous ‘hardening’ of the arteries
10 July 2015Researchers at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, have shown how a radioactive agent developed in the 1960s to detect...
African universities reap fruits of fly research
10 July 2015Fruit flies are proving the unlikely source of a new initiative to help improve postgraduate research opportunities in Africa, with the support of Cambridge academics.
The “Unpublished Prodigy” who caught Mendelssohn’s eye
09 July 2015A previously unseen letter by Felix Mendelssohn is to go on public display in an exhibition about an unrealised British musical prodigy, revealing that he...
How close are you to a fruit fly?
08 July 2015The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, F is for Fruit Fly and the myriad ways...
Six degrees of innovation
08 July 2015New report identifies six successful business models to guide companies.
Combination of diabetes and heart disease substantially reduces life expectancy
07 July 2015Life expectancy for people with a history of both cardiovascular disease and diabetes is substantially lower than for people with just one condition or no...
A quarter of young people in the UK have experienced ‘unsafe’ homelessness, finds study
06 July 2015A new study finds the numbers of young people being accommodated by local authorities or homeless services across the UK to be over three times...
Haeckel’s embryos: the images that would not go away
06 July 2015A new book tells, for the first time in full, the extraordinary story of drawings of embryos initially published in 1868. The artist was accused...
Staff-prisoner relationships are key to managing suicide risk in prison, say researchers
03 July 2015In the wake of a recent increase in prisoner suicide, new research commissioned by the Harris Review on the views and experiences of prison staff...