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31 Mar 2011: Studies at the University of Cambridge have revealed that many of us use musical taste both as a means of expressing our own identity, and to form and refine

16 Mar 2011: The complex question of how children should give evidence to court – particularly when it could be critical to convicting someone of child abuse – will be the

6 Jun 2011: The initiative has been started in response to the challenges associated with continued population growth, economic growth, poverty and climate change to improve people's quality of life, whilst reducing the ... Their mutual learning process will allow

4 Jan 2011: Modern medicine and the science of public health have improved the lot of the Common Man and his life expectancy is gradually increasing. While this is to be

14 Mar 2011: Being a 'happy' teenager is linked to increased well-being in adulthood, new research finds. Much is known about the associations between a troubled childhood

5 Oct 2011: This is the basis of Marcus Sedgwick’s new teen novel, Midwinterblood, a spine chillingly dark historical love story which spans lifetimes and centuries. The

12 Jul 2011: On the other hand, investors are assessing risks and opportunities operating within an economic model that does not take account of the natural limits to growth.

12 Apr 2011: This experiment will study crime hot spots and try out a technique Prof Sherman has developed in USA to lessen crime throughout the city by changing policing

24 Oct 2011: He highlighted too David Cameron's recent speech to the Conservative Party conference, saying it was “an attempt at Churchillian optimism”, trying to rally the country to face the economic troubles

21 Mar 2011: To test their theory, the researchers used a well-established rat model where, by altering the protein content of the mother's diet during pregnancy, the offspring develop type 2 diabetes

11 Mar 2011: International and comparative political economy is another active area, and is closely associated with the study of international organisation, negotiation and transnational networks, as well as the politics of economic policy.

12 Jul 2011: Siblings of people with autism show a similar pattern of brain activity to that seen in people with autism when looking at emotional facial expressions. The

28 Nov 2011: A lot of these skills have direct links back to engineering and that can hopefully get young people thinking about university studies in engineering – rather than getting an economics degree and

20 Dec 2011: The growth enjoyed by Cambridge Enterprise this year demonstrates the value that industry attaches to Cambridge research, and the contribution the University is making to our national economic recovery. ... The growth enjoyed by Cambridge Enterprise this

17 Mar 2011: Drawing on his research, Professor Trevor Robbins will argue that the risk-taking behaviour seen in drug abusers is not, as often thought, the result of

21 Mar 2011: These interactions help me to take a fresh look at economic theory and how it relates to the real world.’He is also keen to bring economics to a new audience ... The real world does not operate in a way that economic models would predict – life is

18 Nov 2011: the information, looking for patterns and connections between facts, and then generating hypotheses to test.

30 Mar 2011: economic. Yet its message goes further still: “The poem is both inside and outside time,” Simala writes.

14 Mar 2011: The scientists posed a series of challenging tests similar to ones used to assess cognitive impairments of humans suffering from HD. ... The tests for the sheep involved making choices that were cued by different coloured or shaped objects, with feed as

21 Dec 2011: The extreme can be a purely physical test but, when it involves experiencing the lives of other people, the notion has to be seen as relative: what appears extreme to one ... In each case, it is the research itself that makes the demands and puts the

13 Apr 2011: Clams, oysters, mussels and scallops all belong to the Bivalvia, a group of more than 8000 species of the Phylum Mollusca. Bivalves have a long geological

23 May 2011: New scientific evidence challenges a popular conception that behaviours such as repetitive hand-washing, characteristic of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD),

20 Jun 2011: readership. Widely credited for the development of a people-based approach to economics that took the discipline in a new direction, Professor Sen examines the ways in which identities play out

22 May 2011: economic context. ... The CRP is very interdisciplinary – its steering committee includes academics with a background in economics, history and political science as well as practitioners.

14 Mar 2011: Gender and level of education both had a significant impact on people's taste in music, literature and film, but the strongest correlations came from the personality test.

22 Dec 2011: I pity our teammates struggling with the same test 1000 metres above us in the Western Cwm. ... Most embarrassing for a Cambridge academic are the cognition tests. What was a doddle at sea level becomes impossible at this altitude.

21 Oct 2011: The test follows the format of one devised by the Cambridge Computer Laboratory which invites participants around the world to watch videos on their home computers and classify their emotional content, ... It will be demonstrated alongside a similar test

19 Oct 2011: Jerusalem, Belfast, Beirut, Mostar – Mention these cities to most people and they will conjure scenes of bullet-sprayed walls, barbed wire fences and

21 Oct 2011: Who donates his or her brain to science? Where do these brains go and how are they used? These are just some of the questions a new exhibition, inspired by the

13 Dec 2011: The sea squirt, a type of marine filter feeder, swims around looking for somewhere to settle down for the rest of its life. Once parked on a rock in a suitable

10 Jan 2011: We have recruited an outstanding team of researchers, with appointments at postdoctoral level in psychology, sociology, economics, statistics and public health.

23 Jun 2011: These are extremely diverse and include energy supply, sustainability, healthcare, economic regeneration and risk management. ... This means that Cambridge engineering research regularly plays a major role in providing solutions to environmental, social

4 Jan 2011: Professor Barry Everitt and Dr Jonathan Lee of the MRC-Wellcome Behaviour and Clinical Neuroscience Institute have shown that they can selectively impair

25 Oct 2011: We use data from experiments that test how well antibodies bind to each strain’s coat protein and turn this into a geometric interpretation in which each antigen, and the antibodies

21 Oct 2011: Globalization might have helped the supremacy of English to continue long after the fall of the British Empire but economic and technological development, trade and migration will change the ways which

31 Aug 2011: Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. Prior to beginning his academic career, he was an economist in the Indian civil service. ... Collectively, they have expertise in water economics, energy systems, land-use issues and climate change mitigation.

11 Oct 2011: When I received notification that I had been promoted to a personal chair, amid the rejoicing was the question – professor of what? It didn’t take me long to

10 Jan 2011: In most cases, their disappearance is a by-product of globalisation, or rapid social and economic change.

12 Sep 2011: A gene responsible for regulating chronic pain, called HCN2, has been identified by scientists at the University of Cambridge. The Biotechnology and Biological

14 Jan 2011: Preventing virus transmission in chickens should reduce the economic impact of the disease and reduce the risk posed to people exposed to the infected birds. ... This work could also form the basis for improving economic and food security in many regions

24 Nov 2011: Our program will put Europe firmly at the heart of the process, with a manifold return on the investment of 1 billion Euros, both in terms of technological innovation and economic

21 Dec 2011: The key message is that the UK government, like many around the world, now recognises that economic measures such as GDP do not provide adequate information about a society’s progress. ... The study’s lead author, Professor Felicia Huppert of the

17 Mar 2011: It has also recently become the base for a new MPhil in Modern South Asian studies, which ranges from business management and development economics, through history and politics to the study ... This large-scale study, which was carried out in

18 Mar 2011: When humans talk to each other they communicate in far greater ways than simply speaking. The way that they speak matters – their facial expressions, tone of

11 Aug 2011: Scientists have identified 29 new genetic variants linked to multiple sclerosis, providing key insights into the biology of a very debilitating neurological

9 Sep 2011: The team’s study may also help scientists’ understanding of evolutionary processes such as biological adaptation and how culture and economic developments affect human biology.

15 Sep 2011: After a brief dip in numbers during the First World War, the economic depression of the 1920s and 1930s forced more women back into service, aided by hostile government benefits policies

2 Nov 2011: But one freezing January day I resolved to put to the test what Roland Barthes called the “degree zero” of writing.

8 Feb 2011: What is most exciting, is that by revealing the similarities between human and mouse immunology of pregnancy, the [teams] lay new foundation for using mouse genetics to test new ideas and ... What is most exciting," Colucci says, "is that by revealing

17 Mar 2011: Our postdoctoral and early career fellows this year are working on projects that span terror and terrorism, complex simplicity in architecture, educational innovation and the economics of infectious diseases.