Landmark event for £26 million building named after physicist James Clerk Maxwell
15 April 2015Topping out event for pioneering new building which will provide a home for blue skies thinking and interaction with industry.
Sir Venki Ramakrishnan confirmed as President Elect of the Royal Society
19 March 2015Nobel laureate Sir Venkatraman (Venki) Ramakrishnan has been confirmed as President Elect of the Royal Society.
New technology centre announced for Cambridge Science Park
20 February 2015̽»¨Ö±²¥Sir John Bradfield Centre will be in the heart of the science park.
Sports calibrated
06 February 2015New methods of gathering quantitative data from video – whether shot on a mobile phone or an ultra-high definition camera – may change the way that sport is experienced, for athletes and fans alike.
Presence or absence of early language delay alters anatomy of the brain in autism
23 September 2014Individual differences in early language development, and in later language functioning, are associated with changes in the anatomy of the brain in autism.
Males and females with autism show an extreme of the typical male mind
16 July 2014̽»¨Ö±²¥largest ever psychological study of sex differences in adults with autism has found that both males and females with autism on average show an extreme of the typical male mind, where systemising (the drive to look for underlying rules in a system) is stronger than empathising (the ability to recognize the thoughts and feelings of others and to respond to these with appropriate emotions).
Adults with Asperger Syndrome at greater risk of suicidal thoughts
25 June 2014Adults with the autism spectrum condition known as Asperger Syndrome are significantly more likely to experience suicidal thoughts than people from the UK general population, according to the first large-scale clinical study of its kind.
Children with autism have elevated levels of steroid hormones in the womb
03 June 2014Children who later develop autism are exposed to elevated levels of steroid hormones (for example testosterone, progesterone and cortisol) in the womb, according to scientists from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge and the Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. ̽»¨Ö±²¥finding may help explain why autism is more common in males than females. However, the researchers caution it should not be used to screen for the condition.
Males and females differ in specific brain structures
11 February 2014New study examines thousands of brains from two decades of research to reveal differences between male and female brain structure.
Cambridge in Davos
20 January 2014A delegation of Cambridge academics, led by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, is attending the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this week.
