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'Cambridge Nights': a late night show for scientists

(PhysOrg.com) -- While it’s not uncommon to see scientists on TV, most of the time it’s just for a few minutes on the news to comment on a recent event or major discovery. A new late night show called ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Skeleton found near Cambridge evidence of first Christian burial in England

(PhysOrg.com) -- A British archeological team has unearthed the 1,400-year old remains of a sixteen year old girl buried with a gold and garnet cross on her chest. And because they also found with her, an ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

The rise and fall of Kodak's moment

On a shelf in his office in Cambridge Judge Business School, Dr Kamal Munir keeps a Kodak Brownie 127. Manufactured in the 1950s, the small Bakelite camera is a powerful reminder of the rise and fall of a ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

From fins to limbs

Tonight Cambridge vertebrate palaeontologist Professor Jenny Clack is the subject of BBC Four’s Beautiful Minds series. The programme looks at her contribution to our understanding of early tetrapods ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'World searches' - most popular searches on Cambridge Dictionaries and the reasons behind them

Cambridge Dictionaries Online has published a list of the top words and phrases that got the world searching in 2011, with some surprising insights into their popularity.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

GEN highlights emerging biotechnology clusters

Although Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, and Cambridge (U.K.) are always near the top of most biotechnology cluster lists, other areas around the world are starting to pop up on the life science radar screen, reports Genetic ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0