The rise of the takeaway
02 April 2015The number of takeaway food outlets has risen substantially over the past two decades, with a large increase seen in areas of socioeconomic disadvantage, according...
Words for mud and mountain, wind and wetland: answers on a postcard, please
01 April 2015‘Dumberdash’ is an old Cheshire term for a short but violent storm. A ‘lumpenhole’ is a deep trench for fluid farmyard waste. The man who remembers...
Ghosts from the past brought back to life
01 April 2015One of the UK’s most important medieval manuscripts is revealing ghosts from the past after new research and imaging work discovered eerie faces and lines...
Archaeologists unearth medieval graveyard beneath Cambridge College
01 April 2015Archaeological investigations discovered one of Britain’s largest medieval hospital cemeteries, containing over 1,000 human remains, when excavating beneath the Old Divinity School at St John’s...
Pollution on the move – human activity in East Asia negatively affects air quality in remote tropical forests
31 March 2015New analysis shows that pollution from human activity in East Asia is having a negative effect on air quality in tropical rainforests thousands of kilometres...
Pig-borne disease jumped into humans when rearing practices changed
31 March 2015The most virulent strains of Streptococcus suis, the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in adult humans in parts of southeast Asia and in pigs around...
Thinking inside the box
31 March 2015New research into the phenomenon of design fixation – allowing prior experience to blind us to new possibilities – may help in the development of...
Earliest humans had diverse range of body types, just as we do today
27 March 2015New research harnessing fragmentary fossils suggests our genus has come in different shapes and sizes since its origins over two million years ago, and adds...
New insights found in black hole collisions
27 March 2015New research provides revelations about the most energetic event in the universe — the merging of two spinning, orbiting black holes into a much larger...
Cambridge's Chemistry of Health programme awarded £17 million in funding
25 March 2015New funding will support fundamental research into the molecular processes underlying human disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, and enable new ways to combat...