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1 Jul 2016: However, to be extractable in an economic way, they need to be concentrated into veins or sediments.” It’s the identification of these concentrations that is critical for the future security ... This collection contains specimens of minerals and

24 May 2016: The findings are included in a new report, The Value of Languages, published by the University of Cambridge this week, after wide-ranging consultation with

9 May 2016: The adjoining Dyson Centre for Engineering Design enables students to express their creative talents and test their engineering skills using high-tech and diverse machining and prototyping equipment.

1 Nov 2016: Professor Spiegelhalter has other examples of the use of evidence in medical stories in his sight: “Take, for instance, the recent media stories about a new test for Down’s syndrome

23 Jun 2016: Except for Rwanda, Ethiopia is the only African country whose economic growth has been consistently high for more than a decade without relying on a natural resource boom. ... Additionally, government provision of transport and energy has been crucial.

15 Jun 2016: These stocks are often considered to be low-risk, because they typically generate high dividends for investors and used to be only moderately affected during periods of economic turmoil. ... The more indebted the firm is, they suggest, the less robust

1 Oct 2016: Global Development Council, Chief Economic Advisor for Allianz, and writes regularly for Bloomberg, the Financial Times and Project Syndicate. ... Dr El-Erian is honorary fellow and alumnus of Queens’ (Economics, 1977), a board member of Cambridge

2 Dec 2016: continuation of those existing policies, which have reduced welfare spending overall in the name of economic austerity. ... Overall, it facilitated the most sustained period of rising economic prosperity in the nation’s history,” the authors observe.

1 Nov 2016: Our research now shows that investing in elephant conservation is actually smart economic policy for many African countries,” said Dr. ... Dr. Brendan Fisher, an economist at University of Vermont’s Gund Institute for Ecological Economics.

26 Oct 2016: It is amplified by the ‘Africa Rising’ narrative, and by the resoluteness of African growth in the face of an economic downturn.

5 Sep 2016: Type 1 diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in children; around one in 4,000 children under 14 years of age is diagnosed with the disease each

27 Jan 2016: This was the fourth year of operation for the Enterprise Fund, which was announced as part of the SEIS programme in the government’s 2012 budget, established to stimulate economic growth.

15 Jun 2016: In two of the tests she conducted, grackles showed they were able to problem solve. ... The second, more complex challenge, was a problem-solving test called Aesop’s Fable.

21 Oct 2016: In what looks very like a tit-for-tat downgrading of bilateral relations, Russia and America have traded diplomatic insults in recent weeks over nuclear weapons, geopolitics and economics, prompting speculation ... David Reynolds, Professor of

2 May 2016: Sudden oak death – caused by Phytophthora ramorum, a fungus-like pathogen related to potato blight – has killed millions of trees over hundreds of square

21 Jan 2016: The World Economic Forum (WEF) published its annual Global Risks Report in the run up to its annual meeting in Davos.

5 Feb 2016: What we’re trying to do is to take biology and put it into computers so that we can really test it.”.

14 Nov 2016: The team are also developing tests for circulating tumour DNA. It’s now known that DNA isn’t present just in cells: it floats around the bloodstream. ... Imagine a child going into a clinic for a five-year checkup, and having a blood test which

15 Nov 2016: There’s a danger that they tend to encourage effort substitution – what people often refer to as ‘teaching to the test’,” explains Dixon-Woods. ... Medical science tends to prioritise trials and particular types of evidence, whereas engineering

7 Nov 2016: In the wake of the Reformation, people were expected to comply with new rules on dress – but, as always, there were some who were determined to test the limits of authority.

25 Feb 2016: and poorer performance on a test of episodic memory. ... The participants took part in a memory test known as the ‘Treasure-Hunt Task’, where they were asked to hide items around complex scenes (for example, a desert with palm trees)

21 Sep 2016: And this is still happening,” says Vendruscolo. “Companies are still putting small molecules into clinical trials that, when we test them using our methods, we find stand no chance.”.

17 Jun 2016: Infrastructure, both existing and future, is of paramount importance for supporting economic growth and productivity. ... Infrastructure, both existing and future, is of paramount importance for supporting economic growth and productivity – and so we

24 Nov 2016: A damp squib: economic policy needed a reboot and instead it got a light makeover. ... Michael White, Director, Real Estate Economics and Investment Research Group, Nottingham Trent University.

18 Mar 2016: This process has worked successfully since the 1950s, and scientists have even demonstrated the first working test chips with features approaching seven nanometres, the equivalent of placing more than 20 billion

14 Jan 2016: The findings are forthcoming in the Journal of Economic History, in a study co-authored by Olivier Accominotti from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and David Chambers of ... In his currency trading, Keynes relied heavily on his own

21 Nov 2016: Fear related disorders affect around one in 14 people and place considerable pressure on mental health services. Currently, a common approach is for patients

14 Dec 2016: The researchers, based at the University of Cambridge's Zoology Department and Edinburgh University's Institute of Evolutionary Biology, wanted to test if they could find more direct genetic or

3 Oct 2016: Bringing together established areas of research excellence across a wide range of disciplines to drive the underpinning research base of data science and address challenging economic and societal issues.

2 Jun 2016: The sex life of the fruit fly is a simple affair. If a fly smells male pheromones, regardless of whether it is a male or a female fly, its response is clear

25 Feb 2016: A coffin artisan in ancient Egypt had to deal creatively with many practical problems and sometimes restrictions on materials available because of the economic or political climate.

18 Nov 2016: Talk with Your Hands: Communicating across the Sensory Spectrum opens with Hayden Dahmm speaking to camera. He is studying engineering and he’s blind. One of

2 Nov 2016: Pain is vital: it is the mechanism that protects us from harming ourselves. If you put your finger into a flame, a signal travels up your nervous system to

11 Nov 2016: She says: “I’m interested in the relationship between people’s practical economic lives and how they see the universe.

4 Feb 2016: Researchers have constructed the first comprehensive model of how neurons in the brain behave when faced with a complex decision-making process, and how they

10 Feb 2016: Tests carried out on toddlers reveal that something quite remarkable happens in child development between the ages of two and five – a stage identified by both educationalists and neuroscientists as critical ... In an experiment designed to identify

10 Jun 2016: Fascinated to find the factors at play, Fuerst and his colleague Ante Busic-Sontic started supplementing their economic models with insights derived from psychology.

28 Apr 2016: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

14 Oct 2016: For all the controversy it caused, Fitna is not a great film. The 17-minute short, by the Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, was a way for him to

16 Jul 2016: In May thousands of people watched a documentary called The Secret Life of the Human Pups. The film accompanied Spot and friends (men who dress as dogs) as

3 Jun 2016: The ‘flood footprint’ of the 2012 ‘Toon Monsoon’ caused around £129 million in direct damages and £102 million in indirect damages, rippling to economic sectors far beyond the physical location of ... As a case study, Barsley is using the

22 Apr 2016: Simple. We have money and a stratified society with a lot of economic inequality and they didn’t. ... We have gone through fits and spurts of gambling, but probably the most important was in the 17th century, when mercantilism upset the economic order

20 Jul 2016: The Department is in the process of recruiting 400 patients for a randomised controlled trial to test this technology.

23 Feb 2016: In 10 minutes, Srivas Chennu can work out what’s going on inside your head. With the help of an electrode-studded hairnet wired up to a box that measures

13 Apr 2016: The ability to predict the gentrification of neighbourhoods could help local governments and policy-makers improve urban development plans and alleviate the negative effects of gentrification while benefitting from economic growth.

20 Oct 2016: One method is to build in an internal self-evaluation or calibration stage so that the machine can test its own certainty, and report back.

10 May 2016: They also found that the economics just didn’t make sense. Building the ponds in which to grow the algae and providing enough light and nutrients for them to grow proved

26 Jul 2016: Their trip was funded through Flight Lines (a joint project between the BTO and the Society of Wildlife Artists), the Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration account, and Smith and

10 May 2016: The research could also provide vital information to help design breast cancer trials and improved tests for the disease. ... Research like this will help us invent new diagnostic tests to guide treatment for breast cancer patients in the future.”.

11 Feb 2016: Now that we have the technological capability to test his theories with the LIGO detectors his scientific brilliance becomes all the more apparent. ... The description of this observation is beautifully described in the Einstein theory of General