Your brain might not be as ‘old’ as you think
09 March 2015Our standard way of measuring brain activity could be giving us a misleading picture of how our brains age, argues Dr Kamen Tsvetanov from the...
Low-impact hub generates electrical current from pure plant power
06 March 2015Green wall technology and semi-transparent solar panels have been combined to generate electrical current from a renewable source of energy both day and night.
On the trail of history’s biggest killers
06 March 2015As well as telling us more about earlier societies, the study of diseases in the past is proving an invaluable tool for modern science, as...
Baby mantises harness mid-air ‘spin’ during jumps for precision landings
05 March 2015High-speed videos reveal that, unlike other jumping insects, the juvenile praying mantis does not spin out of control when airborne. In fact, it both creates...
Gaudier-Brzeska show marks centenary of his death
05 March 2015From March 17, Kettle’s Yard will present a major exhibition to mark the centenary of the death in the First World War of the French-born...
Amazon deforestation ‘threshold’ causes species loss to accelerate
04 March 2015One of the largest area studies of forest loss impacting biodiversity shows that a third of the Amazon is headed toward or has just past...
Caring and sharing: challenges, costs and questions of dignity
03 March 2015Integration of healthcare (free at point of delivery from the NHS) and social care (means-tested and provided by local authorities) is under increasing scrutiny as...
Anyone for digital democracy?
02 March 2015Dr Finbarr Livesey – University lecturer and Deputy Director of the MPhil in Public Policy – submitted research to Parliament’s recent report on digital democracy. Here,...
The super-resolution revolution
27 February 2015Cambridge scientists are part of a resolution revolution. Building powerful instruments that shatter the physical limits of optical microscopy, they are beginning to watch molecular...
Mongolia: unravelling the troubled narratives of a nation
27 February 2015In two separate books, anthropologists Dr Franck Billé and Dr Christopher Kaplonski look at the identity of Mongolia, a country that stands at a cultural...