Connection not conflict is the best way forward
20 June 2011In the introduction to a new book Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen urges governments to focus on commonalities rather than differences.
In the introduction to a new book Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen urges governments to focus on commonalities rather than differences.
Professor George Efstathiou, Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology in Cambridge, is one of four astronomers who have won this year's Gruber Cosmology Prize.
One of Poland's leading journalists plans to bring the study of Polish to the fore at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥, in a public lecture this Thursday.
̽»¨Ö±²¥daring Dambusters raid of World War II, in which RAF pilots famously used a bouncing bomb to breach two German dams, has been recreated by a Cambridge-led team to prove how the amazing feat was achieved.
An archive of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s original work throws fresh light on the workings of a brilliant mind.
 Lord Rees, Astronomer Royal and a former president of the Royal Society, was today awarded the 2011 Templeton Prize.
̽»¨Ö±²¥annual reception for scholars of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and Cambridge Overseas Trust took place last Monday at the Fitzwilliam Museum. ̽»¨Ö±²¥event was attended by the Trusts’ Patron, His Royal Highness ̽»¨Ö±²¥Prince of Wales.
A new study from Utrecht and Cambridge Universities has for the first time found that an administration of testosterone under the tongue in volunteers negatively affects a person’s ability to ‘mind read’, an indication of empathy. ̽»¨Ö±²¥findings are published this week in the journal Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.
Four outstanding Canadian high school students have been awarded Blyth Scholarships which will fund their studies at ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge.
Six Cambridge academics have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours list.