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Blue and great tits recall what they have eaten in the past, where they found the food and when they found it, a new study shows. In the first...

Slush – water-soaked snow – makes up more than half of all meltwater on the Antarctic ice shelves during the height of summer, yet is poorly...

Dr Elizabeth Barsotti is on a mission to map brains from across the animal kingdom. Her work is straight out of science fiction.

Cambridge scientists have grown ‘mini-guts’ in the lab to help understand Crohn’s disease, showing that ‘switches’ that modify DNA in gut cells play...

Industry placements for PhD students can be hugely beneficial for all concerned. We hear from two former students and the companies they worked for.

Cambridge researchers have shown that members of the public have little trouble in learning very quickly how to use a third thumb – a controllable...

New climate-themed art exhibition by local schoolchildren opens its wings at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

John Milton’s handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles , a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost...