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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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

9 Sep 2011: We’re very grateful to all those thousands of people across the world who participated in our DNA ancestry tests and thereby contributed to our research.”.

13 Oct 2011: both test tube and mouse experiments.

20 Jun 2011: Rosa Hoekstra added: “We need to conduct a follow-up study to validate the diagnoses and to test the alternative explanations for the elevated rate of autism in Eindhoven, including the

15 Apr 2011: We now need to see an extension of this study, one which tests larger numbers of people, and then take it out of the hospital and in to the home setting.”.

10 Jan 2011: This agreement signals the faith we have in the Eastern region to deliver economic growth from our exceptionally strong science and technology base. ... This agreement signals the faith we have in the Eastern region to deliver economic growth from our

22 Jun 2011: Pop into any stationery shop and you will see racks of greetings cards poking fun at human behaviour. Women don’t have a sense of direction and can’t read

28 Jun 2011: Children born this year will enter university in or around 2030. The offspring of children born this year will arrive at university-age in the middle of the

14 Mar 2011: A team from the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Cardiff has created a range of motor neurons - nerves cells that send messages from the brain and

13 Jul 2011: Those three themes form the backbone of this year’s Festival of Ideas at the University of Cambridge - the UK’s only arts, humanities and social sciences

6 Oct 2011: Unlike heroin users who may benefit from methadone when attempting to quit, there is currently no medication which has proven to be an effective tool in

24 Sep 2011: Dr Louise Joy is speaking at this year’s Festival of Ideas at Cambridge  – the UK’s only festival covering the arts, humanities and social sciences – which

1 Dec 2011: The result was a 300-year period of evolution. Maximilian's changes were just the first of different phases of reform which usually emerged because of religious differences, economic problems, social

15 Sep 2011: Fluctuations of serotonin levels in the brain, which often occur when someone hasn’t eaten or is stressed, affects brain regions that enable people to regulate

21 Mar 2011: But discriminating which overweight individuals without current risk factors for cardiovascular disease will go on to develop those risk factors, and ultimately clinical cardiovascular disease, remains a challenge-here, blood tests

5 Jul 2011: Lucca is a picturesque town in Tuscany, known for its intact town walls and picturesque centre. But while its ancient ramparts symbolise an ancient technique

4 Jul 2011: The scientists can already model many aspects of plant development and then test if the hypotheses about plant behaviour are correct.

21 Jun 2011: Researchers at the University of Cambridge have identified abnormal brain structures in the frontal lobe of cocaine users’ brains which are linked to their

5 May 2011: Dr Andrea Ferrari. The ambitious and large-scale initiative aims to achieve new breakthroughs both in terms of technological innovation using graphene, and the economic exploitation of the material.

12 Nov 2011: Her intelligence, however, was evident: when she was given an IQ test, she came out top of the MENSA scale.

4 Jul 2011: Visitors to Science Live will be able to test their skills in a specially-devised “Nanoblocks” game which will allow them to design their own nanostructure and see what colours it