Sports calibrated
06 February 2015New methods of gathering quantitative data from video – whether shot on a mobile phone or an ultra-high definition camera – may change the way...
Planck reveals first stars were born late
05 February 2015New maps from the Planck satellite uncover the ‘polarised’ light from the early Universe across the entire sky, revealing that the first stars formed much...
From one extreme to the next?
05 February 2015The threat to peace posed by the Islamic State group has been described as “unprecedented in the modern age”, yet research on the rise and...
Celestial bodies
04 February 2015Astronomy and oncology do not make obvious bedfellows, but the search for new stars and galaxies has surprising similarities with the search for cancerous cells....
Artificially-intelligent Robot Scientist ‘Eve’ could boost search for new drugs
04 February 2015Eve, an artificially-intelligent ‘robot scientist’ could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society journal Interface. The team has...
New initiative to train specialists in risk, mitigation and Big Data
03 February 2015Cambridge is one of four leading UK universities awarded funding to train the next generation of researchers to become experts at assessing and mitigating risk...
Protein threshold linked to Parkinson’s Disease
02 February 2015Excess quantities of a specific protein in the brain dramatically increase the chances of so-called “nucleation events” that could eventually result in Parkinson’s Disease, according...
Can the Revolution in Kurdish Syria succeed?
02 February 2015We can but hope, argue sociologist Dr Jeff Miley and Gates Scholar Johanna Riha, who here summarise some of their observations following a recent field...
Michelangelo bronzes discovered
02 February 2015It was thought that no bronzes by Michelangelo had survived - now experts believe they have found not one, but two - with a tiny...
Imaging: interpreting the seen and discovering the unseen
02 February 2015From visualising microscopic cells to massive galaxies, imaging is a core tool for many disciplines, and it’s also the basis of a surge in recent...