Apple shaped obesity as bad for heart as other obesity
21 March 2011An international study of 220,000 people has challenged the idea that obese people who have an “apple shape” (fat deposits on the middle section of...
Study shows new peanut allergy treatment works
21 March 2011Allergy experts at the University of Cambridge have convincing evidence that a new treatment for peanut allergies is effective, following a three-year trial.
You are what your mother ate
21 March 2011Research provides new insight into why poor diet during pregnancy negatively affects offspring’s long term health.
Mystery of how fleas jump resolved
21 March 2011New research from the University of Cambridge sheds light on how fleas jump, reaching speeds as fast as 1.9 meters per second.
Back ache: it’s been a pain for millions of years
21 March 2011Research by a Cambridge archaeologist shows that back pain caused untold misery long before we started staring into screens and slumping on sofas.
CRASSH: convener and gateway to the humanities
17 March 2011At CRASSH, researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences have the opportunity to intersect, generating fresh thinking and innovation, as Director Professor Mary Jacobus...
Conversations across continents
17 March 2011Each year, academic dialogue is enriched at the Centre of African Studies by the arrival of a group of African scholars who spend up to...
New perspectives on Latin America
17 March 2011At the Centre of Latin American Studies, interdisciplinary research is offering a new perspective on the creativity, challenges and lessons that can be learned from...
What do drugs do to the brain?
17 March 2011Drug abuse is probably linked to an in-built tendency to act without thinking, as shown by studies of siblings of chronic stimulant users, a leading...
Where empires meet
17 March 2011How two ‘rising powers’ – China and Russia – interact across the border they share with resource-rich Mongolia is the focus of a network led...