The educational neuroscience of dyslexia and dyscalculia
01 January 2010For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is helping to understand why.
The future of books
01 January 2010The book publishing industry has gone through more change during the past few decades than in any comparable period in its 500-year history. Professor John...
Le bon usage: using French correctly
01 January 2010The purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is exploring the reasons...
New funding to untangle Alzheimer’s disease
01 December 2009A major new drive to understand, diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease has begun in Cambridge.
Britain's island heritage: half a million years of history
01 November 2009The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.
The importance of grandmothers in the lives of their grandchildren
29 October 2009It is widely believed that women live long post-reproductive lives to help care for their grandchildren. Now research suggests that the pattern may differ depending...
Gates scholars suggest way forward for Rwanda's leading hospital
23 October 2009Expensive medical equipment is lying unused in Rwanda's leading hospital because it costs too much to use it, a report by enterprising students has found.
Willingham Dig unveils village history
13 October 2009Archaeological finds from thousands of years ago have been uncovered in a Cambridge village in an event which was part of the celebrations of the...
Scientists pinpoint breast cancer ‘guard’ gene
06 October 2009Scientists are close to discovering how normal breast cells become cancerous, according to research published today.
The Athenians: Another warning from history?
02 October 2009The collapse of Greek democracy 2,400 years ago occurred in circumstances so similar to our own it could be read as a dark and often...