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One in ten people over forty years old in Britain are vitamin D deficient

As many as one in ten people in Britain over forty years old may be vitamin D deficient, according to a study carried out by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

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Clear skies on exo-Neptune

Smallest exoplanet ever found to have water vapour

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They weren’t wimps: how modern humans, like Neanderthals, braved the northern cold

Recent finds at Willendorf in Austria reveal that modern humans were living in cool steppe-like conditions some 43,500 years ago – and that their presence overlapped with that of Neanderthals for far longer than we thought.

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Presence or absence of early language delay alters anatomy of the brain in autism

Individual differences in early language development, and in later language functioning, are associated with changes in the anatomy of the brain in autism.

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Celebrate thought at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas

Bookings open today for this year's Cambridge Festival of Ideas, now in its seventh year and bigger and better than ever. The Festival, which runs from 20 October to 2 November, explores the rich contributions the arts, humanities and social sciences make to our culture and understanding of the world.

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Creating a shared resource for the endangered culture of the Kalmyks

Almost four centuries ago, ancestors of the Kalmyk people trekked across central Asia to form a Buddhist nation on the edge of Europe. Today Kalmyk communities are scattered across Eurasia, with the largest group in the Republic of Kalmykia. A new project will document Kalmyk heritage to produce an open-access online...

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'Besom ling and teasel burrs': John Clare and botanising

A symposium taking place on Tuesday (23 September 2014) at Cambridge University Botanic Garden will unite artists, writers, scientists and literary scholars to look at the poet John Clare’s close engagement with the natural environment as a botanist as well as poet.

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Quick-change materials break the silicon speed limit for computers

Faster, smaller, greener computers, capable of processing information up to 1,000 times faster than currently available models, could be made possible by replacing silicon with materials that can switch back and forth between different electrical states.

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Science turns to religion for “mass mobilisation” on environmental change

Ahead of the UN summit on climate change, two leading scholars in the field make a watershed appeal to religious leaders for help in mobilising public opinion on the planet's future.

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Why live vaccines may be most effective for preventing Salmonella infections

Vaccines against Salmonella that use a live, but weakened, form of the bacteria are more effective than those that use only dead fragments because of the particular way in which they stimulate the immune system, according to research from the University of Cambridge published today.

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One in ten people over forty years old in Britain are vitamin D deficient

Clear skies on exo-Neptune

They weren’t wimps: how modern humans, like Neanderthals, braved the northern cold

Presence or absence of early language delay alters anatomy of the brain in autism

Celebrate thought at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas

Creating a shared resource for the endangered culture of the Kalmyks

'Besom ling and teasel burrs': John Clare and botanising

Quick-change materials break the silicon speed limit for computers

Science turns to religion for “mass mobilisation” on environmental change

Why live vaccines may be most effective for preventing Salmonella infections

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