Subterfuge, double agents and viruses
20 February 2015Every moment of every day, our immune systems are battling to keep us healthy against an onslaught from invading organisms. But some of these invaders...
Acting ‘out of character’ in the workplace
20 February 2015Look around your workplace – and ask yourself which colleagues you’d describe as extravert and which as introvert. Perhaps your most talkative workmate is actually an introvert? Research...
Minimising ‘false positives’ key to vaccinating against bovine TB
19 February 2015New diagnostic tests are needed to make vaccination against bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) viable and the number of false positives from these tests must be...
Illuminating art’s history
19 February 2015Scientific imaging techniques are uncovering secrets locked in medieval illuminated manuscripts – including those of a thrifty duke.
Planning for war: a guide for businesses
19 February 2015Dr Andrew Coburn of the Cambridge Judge Business School writes on The Conversation website about how business leaders have reawakened to the risk of regional conflict,...
Graphene’s potential for energy conversion and storage
19 February 2015Scientists working with Europe's Graphene Flagship and the Cambridge Graphene Centre have provided a detailed and wide-ranging review of the potential of graphene and related...
Study finds increased DNA mutations in children of teenage fathers
18 February 2015New research reveals that the sperm cells of adolescent boys have more than six times the rate of DNA mutations as the equivalent egg cells...
“You’ve got a friend in me” Bringing designers and animators together
17 February 2015Aircraft designers and animators use different digital technologies to achieve the same goal: creating a three-dimensional image that can be manipulated. But a new method...
Molecular inhibitor breaks cycle that leads to Alzheimer’s
16 February 2015A molecular chaperone has been found to inhibit a key stage in the development of Alzheimer’s disease and break the toxic chain reaction that leads...
Firing up the proton smasher
16 February 2015The Large Hadron Collider is being brought back to life, ready for Run II of the “world’s greatest physics experiment”. Cambridge physicists are among the...