More or less ethical
19 Nov 2015The ethics of a person’s negotiating tactics may differ according to the nationality of the other party to the negotiation, according to a new study.
Evolution website sets out to tackle great scientific unknowns
18 Nov 2015Ever wondered if a fly can ride a bicycle, or whether you could survive only on water? A new website on evolution, created by Cambridge scientists and featuring contributions from luminaries including Sir David Attenborough, has some intriguing answers.
Endurance descendants to mark centenary by completing ancestor’s unfinished business
18 Nov 2015The family of the chief scientific officer from Ernest Shackleton’s famous Endurance expedition are to mark its centenary by completing part of his intended route to the South Pole and by digitising unpublished journals kept by their ancestor, James Wordie.
Hallucinations linked to differences in brain structure
17 Nov 2015People diagnosed with schizophrenia who are prone to hallucinations are likely to have structural differences in a key region of the brain compared to both healthy individuals and people diagnosed with schizophrenia who do not hallucinate, according to research published today.
‘Fourth strand’ of European ancestry originated with hunter-gatherers isolated by Ice Age
16 Nov 2015Populations of hunter-gatherers weathered Ice Age in apparent isolation in Caucasus mountain region for millennia, later mixing with other ancestral populations, from which emerged the Yamnaya culture that would bring this Caucasus hunter-gatherer lineage to Western Europe.
Climate change sentiment could hit global investment portfolios in the short term
12 Nov 2015A new report by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) reveals that global investment portfolios could lose up to 45 per cent as a consequence of short-term shifts in climate change sentiment.
Power up: cockroaches employ a “force boost” to chew through tough materials
11 Nov 2015New research indicates that cockroaches use a combination of fast and slow twitch muscle fibres to give their mandibles a “force boost” that allows them to chew through tough materials.
Ancient stars at the centre of the Milky Way contain ‘fingerprints’ from the very early Universe
11 Nov 2015Astronomers have discovered some of the oldest stars in the galaxy, whose chemical composition and movements could tell us what the Universe was like soon after the Big Bang.
‘Missing’ data complicate picture of where patients choose to die
10 Nov 2015An NIHR-funded study from the University of Cambridge has raised questions about the widely-held assumption that most patients at the end of their lives prefer to die at home rather than a hospice or hospital.
Bullet holes and graphene caves: picturing engineering
10 Nov 2015From a Cambridge guide for robot tourists, to titanium ‘comets’, the winners of the annual Department of Engineering photo competition highlight the variety and beauty of engineering.