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14 Jun 2013: Rarely has Brazil been more conspicuous on the world stage. Whether it is because of the forthcoming World Cup (2014) and Olympics (2016), or its emergence as an economic and scientific

28 Feb 2013: policy issues and activities relating to the political, economic and social advancement of women around the world. ... s access to health and education, remove barriers to full economic and political participation and promote freedom from violence.

7 Jun 2013: In addition to the simulator, Dr Biswas’ algorithms can be added to a site in progress to test a site’s usability, or added to a live site, allowing users to

9 Aug 2013: Chronic cocaine use may reduce the body’s ability to store fat, new research from the University of Cambridge suggests. The scientists found that cocaine use

18 Nov 2013: From the early 20th century onwards, groups of climbers travelled thousands of miles to test themselves in some of the toughest conditions on earth.

15 Feb 2013: Measuring the flow between the underside of a truck and the ground it is passing over presents a particular challenge because of the difficulties in running realistic wind-tunnel tests.

23 May 2013: At the same time they are encouraged to exploit their discoveries – through patents, licensing and business start-ups – helping to advance medical research and improve the UK’s economic competitiveness.

9 May 2013: as the marriage settlement and dowry in 1022 between Namer son of Elkanah and Eudokia daughter of Caleb, which provide social and economic history; and Hebrew manuscripts that contain the date

17 Oct 2013: Importantly, the conference will look beyond the war to Iraq’s future prospects for social, political and economic stability and security. ... The keynote speaker, former Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq (2003-2012) Sinan Shabibi, will address

25 Jul 2013: As such, the neuroscientists and clinicians who led the study are advocating for a transformation of how funding is allocated, with the focus on distributing funding according to diseases’ economic burden. ... Diseases need to be ranked according to

14 Mar 2013: had enabled a vigorous economic expansion. ... In the end the 1772-3 financial crisis had few lasting economic effects outside Scotland, where the Ayr Bank mess took decades to resolve.

25 Jul 2013: The first event, ‘Mathematics for the Physical Sciences’ was aimed at the engineers and physicists of the future. It gave participants the opportunity to apply

23 May 2013: A new book co-authored by Professor Barbara Sahakian explores ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ decision-making and the possible improvement of bad or risky decisions with

9 Oct 2013: Science was not enough,” said Kennel. “It was equally crucial to take into account the social, economic and political considerations bearing upon Venice’s decisions about the Lagoon.”. ... Venice and its Lagoon illustrate the complexity of the

5 Jul 2013: It is being unveiled in a road-test today (July 5th) at the Millbrook Race Track, near Bedford.

2 Sep 2013: collaborate with partners in industry to test new ideas.

26 Apr 2013: Given that start-up companies are widely regarded as the engine of economic growth, and that each year a small number of new enterprises prove spectacularly successful, these are important questions.

13 Dec 2013: One of the primary uses of Wilkes is as a test bed for the development of a computing platform for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). ... For example, the system will be used to design and test jet engines, design new drugs to fight cancer, and examine

14 Mar 2013: In a child’s mind, everyday objects can become almost anything: a large cardboard box can be a rocket ship, or a wooden block can be a fighter jet. While this

12 Feb 2013: only to that area’s growing economic importance, but also to the  increasing significance of its politics.

4 Feb 2013: Sleeping sickness threatens millions of lives in sub-Saharan countries and, because it also affects cattle, is a major contributor to economic hardship.

5 Mar 2013: In addition, the World Economic Forum Global Risks report for 2013 states that, "Given the pace of space exploration, it is increasingly conceivable that we may discover the existence of alien

19 Dec 2013: Test data will soon start streaming back to a specially built computer at the IoA and powerful clusters at four other computing centres in Europe. ... For example, Gaia will provide the most precise test to date of Einstein’s theory of General

6 Feb 2013: Used in conjunction with other tools such as fluorescent indicators and molecular biological tools, the new technology will allow Tiffert and Lew to test their hypotheses about the pre-invasion stage

8 Apr 2013: Researchers have identified four genes newly associated with severe childhood obesity. They also found an increased burden of rare structural variations in

25 Oct 2013: I wanted to do this research to test my hypothesis that the Palladian style, so successful for country houses, was a dull subspecies of public architecture imposed on the country by

6 Aug 2013: tests to measure traits related to autism. ... On the tests of empathy and systemising (how strong an interest the person has in repeating patterns and predictable rule-based systems), girls with anorexia had a higher SQ, and a

24 Sep 2013: In England children now start formal schooling, and the formal teaching of literacy and numeracy at the age of four.  A recent letter signed by around 130

29 Jun 2013: I’m not yet sure how possible it is to think about luxury outside economic terms and frameworks.

20 Mar 2013: Anna Guinot Aguado, Maddie Mitchell and Connie Rich are among a unique group of PhD students. Each year Cambridge receives hundreds of applications for a small

29 Jul 2013: With this study we were able to test all these different hypotheses at once.

5 Aug 2013: Mothers who breastfeed their children may have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease, with longer periods of breastfeeding also lowering the overall

20 Nov 2013: Synaesthesia involves people experiencing a ‘mixing of the senses’, for example, seeing colours when they hear sounds, or reporting that musical notes evoke

16 Jan 2013: But for those who held on to their jobs, it was a relatively good decade as strong economic growth raised living standards. ... His research focuses on UK economic policy from the 1960s to the 1980s.

20 Dec 2013: Initial tests of the combined treatment, carried out in mice by researchers at the University’s Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, resulted in almost complete elimination of cancer cells in one

19 Mar 2013: The participants were each given either a video, or audio clip of a single sentence from the test set and asked to identify which of the six basic emotions it was

19 Feb 2013: With a background in a range of overlapping disciplines, he is currently professor of sociology at the London School of Economics.

15 Feb 2013: Through different tests using variations on food and visual access to the females during feeding, the researchers show that the males needed to actually see the females eating enough of and

15 Feb 2013: The theory predicting the behaviour of hydrogen atoms in magnetic fields this high has been around for just under a century, but until now, no-one was able to test it ... high has been around for just under a century, but until now, no-one was able to

6 Mar 2013: A small proportion of people protested and small proportion collaborated. But carefully targeted violence, propaganda and state's monopoly on economic and civic institutions persuaded the rest to go along. ... Applebaum, who is currently Philip Roman

7 Oct 2013: We’re trying to put a real economic value on natural resources.” Production of many mass market consumables, from beer to chocolate, takes advantage of many natural resources that aren’t

15 May 2013: Patients must carry out frequent finger-prick tests and inject insulin to keep their blood sugar within safe limits. ... Our trials at the CRF are an essential step, enabling us to document safety and reliability with different groups before we let them

23 Oct 2013: test an imaginative design in response to pressing environmental issues.

30 Apr 2013: Indeed, the power of anonymity in the networked hive, as displayed by BitTorrent, is being increasingly embraced by political activism in the wake of economic meltdown. ... Dr James Allen-Robertson is currently based at the Cambridge-INET Institute in

16 Aug 2013: Throughout the world, there is a growing realisation that we cannot achieve economic or environmental sustainability without addressing social inequality, the worst manifestation of which is extreme poverty. ... Whether we're talking about the UK or

26 Jun 2013: A set of gloves and glasses which simulate common physical limitations, like age-related long-sightedness or arthritis, have been released in the hope of

1 Oct 2013: economics (see below) came together to form the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment. ... Dr Tiago Cavalcanti (Faculty of Economics). Dr Douglas Crawford-Brown (4CMR and Dept of Land Economy).

21 Nov 2013: No member of the current British cabinet has a scientific degree – the closest is Vince Cable, who initially read Natural Sciences at Cambridge before switching to Economics. ... Six cabinet members read Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at

4 Nov 2013: The University’s High Performance Computing service will house a laboratory to test computer implementations and scalable architectures for the enormous proportions that SKA requires. ... University’s radio observatory at Lord’s Bridge being used

6 Sep 2013: The distribution of work is – and always will be – an economic and societal challenge. ... JM The distribution of work is – and always will be – an economic and societal challenge.