Topping out for Materials Science and Metallurgy Building
An important phase in the construction of the new £41 million home for the University of Cambridge Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy has been reached.
Butterfly genome reveals a promiscuous past
An international collaborative study to map the genome of a South American butterfly has identified the secret behind its mimetic nature.
Parmee Prize awarded to research student Felice Torrisi
Felice Torrisi, of the Electrical Engineering Division's Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy Group at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded this year's Parmee Prize for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise for his project on graphene printing technology.
A new dimension to DNA and personalised medicine of the future
By investigating the existence of an unusual four-stranded structure of DNA in human cells, scientists have opened the door to novel cancer therapeutics and a new era for personalised medicine.
£16M boost for UK robotics
Cambridge and Cranfield Universities are at the heart of a £16 million government initiative to boost the use of robotics in UK industry. The research project is a government-industry-academic partnership designed to develop smart machines that think for themselves.
Ethical dilemmas and global health
Sociologists Sridhar Venkatapuram and David Stuckler discuss how tensions within society are slowing down the process of combating disease worldwide.
Unhealthy diet and physical inactivity: understanding these silent killers
Population-based interventions for tackling unhealthy diet and physical inactivity could save millions of lives. An ambitious research programme is providing evidence for how best to deliver the goal.
Benefit changes raise pressure on country life
Significant numbers of social tenants in rural areas may have to move away from their friends and communities because of changes to housing benefit criteria, a report reveals.
Scientists identify protein that stimulates brown fat to burn calories
Scientists have identified a protein which regulates the activation of brown fat in both the brain and the body’s tissues. Their research, which was conducted in mice, has just been published in the journal Cell.
Archaeologists discover lost language
Evidence for a forgotten ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time of the Assyrian Empire, has been found by archaeologists working in Turkey.
Rooted in evidence: a public health response to dementia
Research programmes at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health focus on common chronic disorders. Currently under the spotlight is dementia and a major new project that will underpin improved prevention, screening and patient care.
Mystery of the domestication of the horse solved
New research indicates that domestic horses originated in the steppes of modern-day Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, mixing with local wild stocks as they spread throughout Europe and Asia. The research has just been published in the journal PNAS.
Researchers start work on Phase 2 of the India-UK Advanced Technology Centre
Researchers at Cambridge University Engineering Design Centre are playing a key role in the recently announced Phase 2 of the India-UK Advanced Technology Centre; the largest India-UK ICT research collaboration, which employs 200 scientists in both countries, announced by the UK's Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts, during a meeting with Indian Science and Technology Minister…
Undergraduates collaborate with Jaguar Land Rover
A group of Cambridge University engineering undergraduates are nearing completion of their final-year projects in collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover. The projects began in October 2011 and will come to a conclusion with the submission of final reports at the end of this month.
Towards zero carbon procurement
The University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL) is hosting a launch event for 'Towards Zero Carbon Procurement', chaired by Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Chancellor of the University. This public-private initiative aims to create procurement opportunities for suppliers able to offer innovative low-carbon goods and services.
Scientists develop new technique that could improve heart attack prediction
Building on work pioneered in Cambridge 10 years ago, scientists have developed a new imaging approach that could help improve how doctors predict a patient’s risk of having a heart attack.
Cambridge in Concrete: the boom years of Brutalism
A new exhibition at Cambridge University's Department of Architecture aims to expose the forgotten history of the University’s experimental post-war architecture: the ‘other’ Cambridge of raw, angular buildings and the ambition and innovation they embody.
What Cambridge women did for us
A series of events at Cambridge’s Folk Museum this summer will draw attention to the struggle for equality for women in education and at work. Among the speakers are Cambridge academics Dr Lucy Delap, Dr Phil Howell and Dr Deborah Thom.
Work starts on Cambridge Sports Centre
Construction work has begun on the site of the £16 million Phase One of the long-awaited Cambridge Sports Centre at West Cambridge.
PublicHealth@Cambridge
This month, the University of Cambridge will be profiling research that addresses public health. To begin, Professor Carol Brayne, Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, explains how the goals of a new University Strategic Network, PublicHealth@Cambridge, will generate fresh insight into the health and well-being of populations.
Salmonella infection, but not as we know it
Cambridge University researchers, funded by the BBSRC, have shed new light on a common food poisoning bug.
New lab to focus on creating sustainable energy source
A state-of-the-art laboratory, which aims to use sunlight to power the sustainable conversion of CO2 and water to form syngas, a high-energy gas mixture with potential as a future fuel source, has opened in Cambridge University's Department of Chemistry.
Call of the wired
For generations, we have dreamed of machines with artificial intelligence with which we can have real conversations but, despite amazing technological advances, such devices seem some way off. Now researchers at Cambridge are changing the picture, by remodelling the essence of spoken dialogue systems
Twinkle, twinkle, little star: I’m going to know what you are
A team of astronomers at the University of Cambridge is taking the next big step in a European-wide programme which will lead to the creation of the first three-dimensional map of more than a billion stars.
Zero interest and growing fast
From humble beginnings, Islamic finance is now a trillion dollar industry and growing at a rate some in the West find alarming. A new analysis suggests it can be accommodated by the existing global financial system for everyone’s benefit.