Fighting prostate cancer with a tomato-rich diet
28 August 2014Men who eat over 10 portions a week of tomatoes have an 18 per cent lower risk of developing prostate cancer, new research suggests.
How the British treated 'hardcore' Mau Mau women
28 August 2014New research on the treatment of 'hardcore' female Mau Mau prisoners by the British in the late 1950s sheds new light on how ideas about...
Nanotechnology used to create next-generation holograms for information storage
28 August 2014Holograms made of tiny particles of silver could double the amount of information that can be stored in digital optical devices, such as sensors, displays...
Why marvellous isn't awesome any more
27 August 2014Using the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, a very large collection of recordings of real-life, informal, spoken interactions between speakers of British English from across...
Animals first flex their muscles
27 August 2014A new fossil discovery identifies the earliest evidence for animals with muscles.
Monitoring Bárðarbunga and Holuhraun
26 August 2014Cambridge scientists and PhD students are at the forefront of monitoring the activity of the Bárðarbunga volcano in Iceland. The research group, led by Professor...
Chinese migrant workers in Japan: behind the headlines
26 August 2014Chinese migrant workers in Japan are more than passive victims of difficult work conditions and are able to use their own networks and provide mutual...
Looking for King Lear in Kashmir
22 August 2014Dr Preti Taneja first read King Lear as a teenager and immediately saw parallels with the Indian culture of her parents’ homeland. Almost 20 years later, she spent...
Breastfeeding linked to lower risk of postnatal depression
20 August 2014A new study of over 10,000 mothers has shown that women who breastfed their babies were at significantly lower risk of postnatal depression than those...
Misunderstood worm-like fossil finds its place in the Tree of Life
17 August 2014One of the most bizarre-looking fossils ever found - a worm-like creature with legs, spikes and a head difficult to distinguish from its tail –...