Designing sustainable cities of the future
01 May 2008As more people become city-dwellers, can we design cities to be more sustainable?
Release of Darwin’s papers includes first draft of Theory of Evolution
17 April 2008The first draft of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is among thousands of his private papers made accessible online for the very first time.
Cambridge academics shed new light on the Sun
09 April 2008New insights into solar activity have been revealed thanks to research from a group of Cambridge academics.
Unlocking the secrets of the universe
01 April 2008Cosmic defects and adolescent galaxies – two research projects in Cambridge are bringing us closer to understanding the cosmos.
Under the sea
27 March 2008Scientists explore huge volume of molten rock now frozen into the crust under the ocean’s floor.
Cambridge's gay past: from the 17th century to the foundation of Stonewall
19 February 2008The gay history of Cambridge University will be revealed in a public lecture this Wednesday at Lucy Cavendish College.
Weathering storms: transforming conflict in the church
08 February 2008A research initiative in the Faculty of Divinity aims to train church leaders to convert the negatives of conflict into the positives of transformation.
‘Sex, scandal and sermon’ in medieval Spain
08 February 2008A new study of the 14th-century narrative poem Libro de Buen Amor explores how its earthy tales of failed love are shaped by humour.
Translating research from bench to bedside
08 February 2008Recent funding of over $5 million to Dr Sabine Bahn by the Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI) raises diagnostic and therapeutic hopes for a group...
Gems of colour: pigments of the ‘Colourmen’
08 February 2008Dragon’s Blood, Purple of Cassius and Scarlet Lake – all pigments concocted by the 19th-century 'Colourmen' of Winsor & Newton artists’ suppliers. Now, a painstaking...