Research suggests meerkat predator-scanning behaviour is altruistic
15 February 2013Meerkats are more likely to scan for predators from high vantage points or guard on their hind legs when young pups are present in the group.
Meerkats are more likely to scan for predators from high vantage points or guard on their hind legs when young pups are present in the group.
Research suggests that Eurasian Jays might be able to determine aspects of the ‘internal life’ of their mate.
Scientists who recently discovered a new strain of superbug have now tracked its transmission between animals and humans.
Centre will support researchers working in public health and tropical medicine.
A ground-breaking imaging system to track malarial infection of blood cells in real time has been created by a collaboration catalysed by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥â€™s Physics of Medicine Initiative.
New research is helping to unveil how the parasite that causes sleeping sickness uses stealth tactics to escape detection by the human immune system.
Research reveals the mechanism of epigenetic reprogramming.
Dr Beverley Glover has been named as the new Director of Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Botanic Garden. Dr Glover will take up the post, and the associated Professorship of Plant Systematics and Evolution to which she has been elected, in July 2013.
A notebook recording the fauna of Cambridgeshire observed and collected by the Reverend Leonard Jenyns between 1820 and 1849 has been published in full for the first time. A significant naturalist in his own right, Jenyns turned down the offer of a place on HMS Beagle, recommending instead a younger colleague, Charles Darwin.
New research shows how some bacterial cells keep a ‘suicide complex’ ready to hand at all times.