Drying without dying
01 May 2009Some remarkable organisms are able to withstand almost complete desiccation. How they survive is providing Cambridge researchers with new ideas for biostable therapeutics.
Scientists discover ‘dancing’ algae
21 April 2009Scientists at Cambridge University have discovered that freshwater algae can form stable groupings in which they dance around each other, miraculously held together only by...
Scientists issue warning on future of central Arctic
17 April 2009Scientists have warned that world leaders are in a race against time to make key decisions about the future of international co-operation in the Arctic.
Robot scientist becomes first machine to discover new scientific knowledge
02 April 2009Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Aberystwyth University have created a "robot scientist" which the researchers believe is the first machine to have independently...
Germ cells: the route to immortality
01 April 2009How do cells become equipped to generate a whole new organism?
Gender equality in modern times
01 April 2009The largest multidisciplinary research network of its kind in the UK is investigating why gender equality is still a pressing social issue in the 21st...
Cambridge gene hunters find two new breast cancer genes
30 March 2009Two new regions of the human genome linked to breast cancer have been found by an international team of scientists led by Cambridge University researchers;...
Improving cognitive ability through education and health may cut dementia risk
27 March 2009Improvements in education and health could reduce the number of elderly people who suffer from dementia, according to the first study in England to compare...
A boost for family research
25 March 2009A team studying the psychological well-being of children created by assisted reproduction has been awarded a prize for their work.
The human brain is on the edge of chaos
23 March 2009There has been speculation for many years that the human brain lives “on the edge of chaos”, at a critical transition point between randomness and...