Cambridge scientists have solved the mystery of why both stimulating and blocking a particular ‘switch’ in the brain can help ...

The University of Cambridge’s strength in bringing together research, business, and investment to inspire innovation and ...

Quotations from Alan Turing’s short story known as ‘Pryce’s Buoy’ The 5th and 6th pages of Alan Turing's unfinished and unpublished short story known as ...

The authors of a new edition of a book of Homer’s Odyssey hope that Christopher Nolan’s film (out 17 th July) will feature enough female characters and do justice to the epic’s crucial underworld ...

University spinout, CamGraPhIC, has received the EC greenlight for €211 million funding (about £183 million) from Italy to support the development of photonic optical transceivers based on graphene.

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, B is for Bear – found roaming Cambridgeshire 120,000 years ago, ...

Trinity College is celebrating the centenary of the birth of twin brothers Peter Shaffer (1926-2016) and Anthony Shaffer (1926-2001) who both studied at Trinity and went on to become award-winning ...

Children’s play is under threat from increased urbanisation, perceptions of risk and educational pressures. The first research centre of its kind aims to understand the role played by play in how a ...

When historian Frederick Jackson Turner presented his famous thesis on the US frontier in 1893, he described the “coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and acquisitiveness” it had forged in ...

Researchers have developed comfortable, washable ‘smart pyjamas’ that can monitor sleep disorders such as sleep apnoea at home, without the need for sticky patches, cumbersome equipment or a visit to ...

Friends and colleagues pay tribute to world-renowned expert. “It is not an exaggeration to say that Chris has been the single most influential figure in the field of modern Indian history." Professor ...