Cambridge University

Cambridge Retrofit is a landmark energy-efficiency initiative which aims to reduce the carbon emissions of buildings across the city of Cambridge by 30% before 2050. To be successful, the project team will need to provide ...

The world needs forests. By using advanced imaging technology, scientists are able to map on an unprecedentedly large scale -- and in remarkably accurate detail - what is happening to these precious resources worldwide.

...

Despite adolescence being a high-risk time for developing major psychiatric and drug dependence disorders, very little is known about the teenage brain.

A novel research project jointly led by scientists from the Universi...

Douglas Kell, Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) looks back to C.P.Snow's famous "Two Cultures" lecture of 1959 and discusses the role the Biology research base to policy ...

By chemically sampling the atmospheres of two dead stars in the Hyades cluster 150 light years away, researchers at Cambridge and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the building blocks for Earth-sized planets fo...

Chris Tyler, Director of the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST), reviews the Science / Policy landscape and argues that for policy makers to do science better, scientists need to do policy better.

Andrea Lee, Head of the Strategic Analysis team at the Department for Communities and Local Government, shares her experience of being a CSaP Policy Fellow and the ways new methodologies in research can be leveraged in gov...

Graham Pendlebury, Director of Local Transport at the Department for Transport, shares his experience of being of a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP).

Jill Rutter, Programme Director for Better Policy Making at the Institute for Government, looks back at the history of science and policy interaction and discusses the need for intermediary organisations to facilitate conn...

Engineering Department PhD student and President of Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) discusses opportunities for early career researchers interested in the policy implications of their work. For mor...

The UK Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Mark Walport, speaking with CSaP's Founding Director Dr David Cleevely at the CSaP's annual conference (18th April 2013). Sir Mark delivered the keynote address at the conf...

James Wilsdon, Professor of Science and Democracy at the University of Sussex, talks about the launch of "Future directions of scientific advice in Whitehall" - a collection of essays marking the appointment of the UK Gove...

The Centre for Science and Policy's annual conference, held on 18th April at the Royal Society, brought together some of the country's most eminent professionals working at the interface of Science and Policy.

Over 230 p...

Fashion conveys complex messages. The recreation of an outfit taken from one of an extraordinary series of Renaissance portraits reveals how one man made his mark on society.

In 1530 Matthäus Schwarz, an accountant in th...

An inspiring and insightful lecture by Sir David Attenborough in the University of Cambridge Senate House marked the official launch of the Cambridge Conservation Campus. The Campus, due to be complete towards the end of 2...

A major project -- Where Rising Powers Meet -- looks at life along the border that separates Russia, China and Mongolia. Among the researchers involved is Dr Sayana Namsaraeva whose work focuses on the experiences of the B...

Dr Findlay Stark examines the defence of marital coercion, which recently hit the headlines with the trials of Vicky Pryce and former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne for perverting the course o...

Meet Zoe: a digital talking head which can express human emotions on demand with "unprecedented realism" and could herald a new era of human-computer interaction.

The system, called "Zoe", is the result of a collaboration...

This short film is an extract of a twenty-minute film about the building of Churchill College, lost for a generation, now fragile, has been recently digitised for posterity. Made between 1962 and 1964, when the College's c...

Some of the world's oldest engravings of the human form -- prehistoric rock art from the Italian Alps -- have been brought to life by the latest digital technology.

P • I • T • O • T • I • is an innovative research projec...

Fryderyk Chopin is one of the most enduring composers of all time, universally celebrated for the originality and expressive power of his music. But Chopin is as frustrating as he is fascinating, because he rarely left beh...

In Re J (Children) [2013] UKSC 9 the Supreme Court considered a child protection case involving a mother who had previously been suspected of causing significant harm to her child, and was now looking after different child...

By studying the aerodynamics of speed skiing Cambridge Engineering student, Robert Sills, is developing methods to improve the results of the British Speed Ski Team by reducing their aerodynamic drag.

Major improvements ...