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Peter Pan and Wendy: how J M Barrie understood and demonstrated keys aspects...
In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J M Barrie describes a moment when a young girl, seeking to comfort a tearful Peter, gives him her handkerchief. But he doesn’t know what to do with it. Barrie...
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Opinion: Forget Super Thursday, the Bank of England can only offer Mildly...
The Bank of England is expected to announce on Thursday measures to stimulate the UK economy following signs that there will be a significant economic downturn following the vote for Brexit. The Bank...
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Brains of overweight people ‘ten years older’ than lean counterparts at...
Our brains naturally shrink with age, but scientists are increasingly recognising that obesity – already linked to conditions such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease – may also affect the onset and...
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Opinion: Musical genres are out of date – but this new system explains why...
It’s hard to pinpoint the exact time in history when genre labels were used to classify music, but the fact is that over the past century, and certainly still today, genre labels dominate. Whether...
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Opinion: Only by keeping close ties with Europe can UK research remain...
The best ideas do not respect national boundaries. Great research and scholarship has always relied on cross-border interactions. Rivalries, such as that between Newton and Leibnitz over the invention...
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Liquid light switch could enable more powerful electronics
Researchers have built a miniature electro-optical switch which can change the spin – or angular momentum – of a liquid form of light by applying electric fields to a semiconductor device a millionth...
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Positive teacher-student relationships boost good behaviour in teenagers for...
A new study has found that having a positive relationship with a teacher around the age of 10-11 years old can markedly influence the development of ‘prosocial’ behaviours such as cooperation and...
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Where the river meets the sea: the making of ethical decisions
Mid-way through her book, Making a Good Life: An Ethnography of Nature, Ethics, and Reproduction, Dr Katharine Dow describes walking on a Scottish beach and seeing, for the first time, a minke whale in...
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Textbook story of how humans populated America is “biologically unviable”,...
The established theory about how Ice Age peoples first reached the present-day United States has been challenged by an unprecedented study which concludes that their supposed entry route was...
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Gene signature in healthy brains pinpoints the origins of Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers have discovered a gene signature in healthy brains that echoes the pattern in which Alzheimer’s disease spreads through the brain much later in life. The findings, published in the journal...
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Virus attracts bumblebees to infected plants by changing scent
Plant scientists at the University of Cambridge have found that the cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) alters gene expression in the tomato plants it infects, causing changes to air-borne chemicals – the...
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Beyond the harem: ways to be a woman during the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman women shopped. They didn’t just shop; they also ran businesses, owned property and, on occasion, stormed buildings to stage protest meetings. Not only did they flirt and dance – and infuriate...
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Aesthetics over athletics when it comes to women in sport
The research draws on the Cambridge English Corpus and the Sports Corpus – multi-billion word databases of written and spoken English from a huge range of media sources – which also highlight a...
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Time of day influences our susceptibility to infection, study finds
When a virus enters our body, it hijacks the machinery and resources in our cells to help it replicate and spread throughout the body. However, the resources on offer fluctuate throughout the day,...
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Opinion: Exam results: how mindfulness can help you make better life choices
One of the most important events in the British education calendar is approaching: A-level results day. Beyond A-levels, choosing what you want to do, or what you want to study are two of the big...
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Opinion: How your body clock helps determine whether you’ll get ill or not
From vitamin C and echinacea to warm clothes and antibacterial soap, there’s no shortage of ideas about how to prevent and manage colds and flu. Unfortunately, many of these are not based on solid...
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Flamenco: what happens when a grassroots musical genre becomes a marker of...
For audiences around the world, flamenco symbolises the colour and romance of southern Spain. An energetic blend of song, guitar and dance, it is most strongly associated with Andalusia, one of Spain’s...
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Have we misunderstood post-traumatic stress disorder?
It’s long been assumed that war-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) stems from how well a person copes psychologically with exposure to violence or the threat of violence. A new study,...
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Astronomers identify a young heavyweight star in the Milky Way
Astronomers have identified a young star, located almost 11,000 light years away, which could help us understand how the most massive stars in the Universe are formed. This young star, already more...
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When beauty matters: the politics of how we look
We live in a world brimming with images. But the pictures that perhaps most powerfully evoke our individual life stories are seldom seen. Stored in personal albums or pushed to the back of drawers,...
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