Articles about 'France'

The British Academy has today announced the scholars elected for this year’s Fellowships in recognition of their contribution to the humanities and social sciences.

A collaborative study led by Cambridge is examining the impact on society of the destruction and reconstruction of cultural heritage.

The 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 behind this national preoccupation.

Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that a lowly grape variety grown by peasants, but despised by noblemen, during the Middle Ages was the mother of many of today's greatest grape varieties, including the Chardonnay used in Champagne.

The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.

Professor Paul Cartledge finds that the Greeks, a people rarely known for their wine-making skills, nevertheless laid the foundations for the European wine trade.

A new European research consortium, in which Cambridge will play a major role, is to receive 3 million Euros to conduct research into the escalating epidemic of obesity. The 'EurOCHIP’ project brings together a group of leading European experts to investigate how signals from the gut communicate with the brain to control appetite.

As part of a unique collaborative agreement, the Japanese government has located a new research satellite at The Nanoscience Centre, University of Cambridge.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being switched on today, marking one of the most important events in modern science.

Two early-career academics in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages have been recognised by the Philip Leverhulme Prize.