Two specimens of one of the world’s oldest and rarest plants, dating back to the time of the dinosaurs, are now on view at the Botanic Garden in Cambridge.

Older meerkats teach younger meerkats how to handle prey.

This was Sven Goran Eriksson's last World Cup as England manager, but according to a recent Cambridge study, his next job may not be based on his managerial ability but on the luck of his team alone.

The Head of Education at the Fitzwillam Museum and an eminent University astronomer have each been honoured with an OBE in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

The Cambridge Programme for Industry has announced that fourteen senior executives of some of the UK’s leading businesses have approached the Prime Minister offering their support in taking bold steps to prevent climate change.

A PhD student at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), Richard Page, has been hailed as one of the UK’s top young scientists after being awarded the 2006 Westminster Medal in conjunction with Dr Christopher Mee of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Functional Genetics Unit (FGU) in Oxford.

The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund has provided £3.8 million to endow in perpetuity a professorship in Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge.

A Cambridge PhD student is following in his great-great-grandfather's footsteps by helping to measure the speeds of up to one million stars passing near the Sun, a huge advance on the efforts of his ancestor who was able to measure the speeds of only 100 stars over a century ago.

Cambridge scientists have discovered a solution for controlling one of the world’s biggest environmental and ecological pests – the zebra mussel.

Four doctors have received prizes from the University’s School of Clinical Medicine in recognition of outstanding work on their MD dissertations.