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Thorny devil (Moloch horridus) at Great Central Road (WA) 2006

Enter the Map of Life and meet a thorny devil

03 Mar 2011

A new website that explains why humans have the same type of eye as an octopus and how animals separated by millions of years can evolve in the same...

Endangered languages database launched online

10 Jan 2011

An open database of endangered languages has been launched by researchers in the hope of creating a free, online portal that will give people access...

Cambridge Ideas - The Emotional Computer

10 Jan 2011

Cambridge University film provides a glimpse of how robots and humans could interact in the future...

Ancient Bible fragments reveal a forgotten history

10 Jan 2011

New research has uncovered a forgotten chapter in the history of the Bible, offering a rare glimpse of Byzantine Jewish life and culture.

Managing the data deluge

01 Nov 2010

A project at Cambridge University Library is developing services and resources to help academics manage their digital data.

The Book of Kings: the epic continues

01 Nov 2010

A millennium after its completion, an epic Persian poem is providing the springboard for a new centre of Persian studies in Cambridge.

Reading closely: Faculty of English

01 May 2010

Close scrutiny of text is the bedrock of a research culture that spans practically the whole range of contemporary English studies.

A scriptorium of commonplace books

01 May 2010

A digital archive of 500-year-old 'filofaxes' offers extraordinary insight into early thought and writing practices.

Frontispace of Vaugelas's Remarques sur la langue française (1647)

Le bon usage: using French correctly

01 Jan 2010

The purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is...