Forgotten recordings made by a pioneering Black academic allow contemporary linguists to hear for the first time how the ...

Comets didn’t seed life on Earth after all, a new study suggests, potentially overturning a century-old idea. The theory that ...

For two years, a team including University of Cambridge anthropologist Dr Mark Dyble, lived with the Agta, a population of small scale hunter-gatherers from the northern Philippines who are ...

A Sustainable Food Policy at the University of Cambridge, which includes removing beef and lamb from the menu and promoting plant-based food options, has had a dramatic effect on food-related carbon ...

Spending can increase our happiness when it is spent on goods and services that fit our personalities and so meet our psychological needs. Joe Gladstone People who spent more money on purchases which ...

Many men who have sex with men remain unaware of the growing risk posed by sexually transmitted Shigella, say researchers, as a new study shows variants are spreading quickly in the UK and evolving ...

Asked about the motives behind the events, Dr Pesaran shares her views: “This war is an attempt to decimate an already weakened Iran. And it's important to look at it in the context of both the 12-day ...

Now cutting-edge DNA sequencing of more than 400 Viking skeletons from archaeological sites scattered across Europe and Greenland will rewrite the history books as it has shown: Results of the ...

The ‘life’ of democracy – from its roots in ancient Athens to today’s perverted and ‘creeping, crypto-oligarchies’ – is the subject of a newly-published book by eminent Cambridge classicist Paul ...

Up to 3,500 first time mums are due to take part in a study led by Cambridge researchers to understand why some will develop pre-eclampsia and placental complications during pregnancy and whether it ...

Nobel laureate and Cambridge alumnus Sir Demis Hassabis believes we are entering a new era of ‘digital biology’, where AI can help us reimagine the principles of drug discovery at ‘digital speed’.

Cambridge has a strong and longstanding relationship with China. Over 2,000 of our students are from the People's Republic of China, making them the largest international group from a single country ...