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Scientists identify mechanism that helps us inhibit unwanted thoughts
We are sometimes confronted with reminders of unwanted thoughts — thoughts about unpleasant memories, images or worries. When this happens, the thought may be retrieved, making us think about it again...
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Cambridge launches new biomedical collaboration across borders and...
The collaboration, between the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation and Sunway Medical Centre in Malaysia, the University of Cambridge and Papworth Hospital, will establish a joint programme between the...
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Postgraduate Open Day 2017 - meet our postgrads
These students walk in the footsteps of giants: Francis Crick, Elizabeth Blackburn, Stephen Hawking, Iris Murdoch and Eric Hobsbawm all pursued PhD research here.We thought you might like the...
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Périgord black truffle cultivated in the UK for the first time
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Mycorrhizal Systems Ltd (MSL) have confirmed that a black truffle has been successfully cultivated in the UK for the first time: the farthest north that...
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Ten leading universities release animal research statistics
The top ten institutions conduct more than two thirds of all UK university animal research between them, completing a combined total of 1.4 million procedures. Over 99% of these procedures were carried...
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Cambridge expert jointly leads international push to reduce global burden of...
The Commission has been co-led by Professor David Menon from the Division of Anaesthesia at the University of Cambridge together with Professor Andrew Maas from Antwerp University Hospital and...
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Opinion: Universities must continue to change if they want to be safe places...
In the past few days, I have lost count of the times I’ve heard politicians and others say that sexual comments, coercion or even acts of force were acceptable 15, 20 or 25 years ago, but the...
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Fully integrated circuits printed directly onto fabric
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, working with colleagues in Italy and China, have demonstrated how graphene – a two-dimensional form of carbon – can be directly printed onto fabric to...
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Height and weight evolved at different speeds in the bodies of our ancestors
A wide-ranging new study of fossils spanning over four million years suggests that stature and body mass advanced at different speeds during the evolution of hominins – the ancestral lineage of which...
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Sheep are able to recognise human faces from photographs
Sheep can be trained to recognise human faces from photographic portraits – and can even identify the picture of their handler without prior training – according to new research from scientists at the...
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Archaeologists uncover rare 2,000-year-old sundial during Roman theatre...
Not only has the sundial survived largely undamaged for more than two millennia, but the presence of two Latin texts means researchers from the University of Cambridge have been able to glean precise...
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Opinion: What makes the Cambridge cluster special?
More than 60,000 people are employed in the so-called ‘Cambridge cluster’ of companies, and in excess of £12 billion in turnover is generated annually by the 4,700 knowledge-intensive firms in and...
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Children with disabilities are being denied equal opportunities for a quality...
Countries, with both developed and developing economies, need to do more to ensure that children with disabilities not only access education, but also benefit from quality education.In England, while...
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Opinion: What can we learn about you from just one click?
Whether you like it or not, almost every step you take online is recorded: the websites you visit, the purchases you make, the songs you listen to, the messages you post or read on social sites, and...
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Keyhole surgery more effective than open surgery for ruptured aneurysm
This is the first randomised trial comparing the use of keyhole (endovascular) aneurysm repair versus traditional open surgery to repair ruptured aneurysm, with full midterm follow-up.Abdominal aortic...
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‘Mini liver tumours’ created in a dish for the first time
Primary liver cancer is the second most lethal cancer worldwide. To better understand the biology of the disease and develop potential treatments, researchers need models that can grow in the lab and...
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New Director of Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute announced
The Institute - one of the largest cancer research facilities in Europe - is based in the heart of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. This close collaboration between scientific research and hospital...
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BT and Huawei announce five year collaboration with Cambridge
This new team, intended to combine the brightest minds from two of the biggest global information, communication and telecommunications (“ICT”) companies with one of the foremost academic institutions...
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The beauty of engineering
The competition, sponsored by ZEISS (Scanning electron microscopy division), international leaders in the fields of optics and optoelectronics, has been held annually for the last 13 years. See more of...
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Ancient fish scales and vertebrate teeth share an embryonic origin
In biology, one long-running debate has teeth: whether ancient fish scales moved into the mouth with the origin of jaws, or if the tooth had its own evolutionary inception.Recent studies on species...
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