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26 Oct 2015: With additional funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, EWF expanded to include social science and policy dimensions.

17 Sep 2015: A paper from Cambridge researchers calls on governments and other policymakers to promote refugee-camp entrepreneurship in order to provide an economic and psychological boost to displaced people. ... The paper – entitled “Entrepreneurship and

8 Oct 2015: His ground-breaking research uncovered the social and intellectual origins of these informants, and showed how networks of ‘go-betweens’ helped the British understand India’s politics, economic activities and culture. ... Every one of his

27 Apr 2015: The images, of embryos of a green alga called Volvox, make an ideal test case to understand how a remarkably similar process works in early animal development. ... Using fluorescence microscopy to observe the Volvox embryos, the researchers were able to

3 Jun 2015: “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I’m not kidding,” Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google famously observed in

27 Aug 2015: diagnosed with ADHD and 23 of the controls undertook a test of working memory inside the scanner. ... Even amongst the adolescent ADHD sample who passed the memory test, the scores were on average 6 percentage points less than controls.

10 Jun 2015: “Shall we take one of the sheep for a walk?” asks Professor Jenny Morton before we head down to the farmyard. This seems a strange question at first: we’re all

23 Jun 2015: His app, myPersonality, allowed users to complete a range of psychometric tests, get feedback on their scores and share it with friends. ... It went viral. By 2012, more than six million people had completed the test, with many users allowing researchers

9 Jun 2015: Everything that happens to you within the hospital – every test result, every diagnosis, every drug prescribed – is captured in an electronic record.

31 Mar 2015: It’s a common occurrence: when faced with a problem which is similar to one which has been faced before, most people will default to what worked in the past.

27 Feb 2015: There has been a revolution in optical microscopy and it’s been 350 years in the making. Ever since Robert Hooke published his Physiological Descriptions of

21 Sep 2015: In the trial, it worked even better than average on patients whom tests showed had high salt levels.

18 Mar 2015: In what they believe is the first test case of this type of analysis, Howe, Windram and one of the UK’s leading early keyboard players, Professor Terence Charlston from the ... Even in this test case we found two main families that corresponded to

15 Oct 2015: Post economic crisis, Ford has launched innovation initiatives to become more agile in a future crisis.

9 Oct 2015: We now want to refine it and test it in mice and in fish, alongside a shortlist of around 30 other potential drugs,” he adds.

8 Jan 2015: Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Plymouth University have shown that follow-through – such as when swinging a golf club or tennis racket – can

13 May 2015: The researchers were then able to independently test their results by looking at the stellar age difference between star-forming and dead galaxies, independent of metal levels, and found an average

29 Jun 2015: A test based on the concept is soon to enter the clinic, and we are exploring new treatments for autoimmunity based on manipulating T cell exhaustion.

7 Apr 2015: The new run will subject the Standard Model of particle physics to its toughest tests yet, and may help identify some of the fundamental forces of nature that the Standard Model ... Detailed studies of the Higgs boson are also going to test our

11 Feb 2015: But how to test this? “He was carrying out his studies in the 1920s and 1930s when research methodology was in its infancy,” said Horry. ... Where his creativity literally took off was in realising that to test the atmosphere for spores he had to

6 Oct 2015: In the UK, the government has placed manufacturing at the heart of plans for economic recovery.

16 Mar 2015: The research, published today in Nature Neuroscience, is the first to isolate the adaptive forgetting mechanism in the human brain. The brain imaging study

30 Oct 2015: Meanwhile as we’ve seen with the hysteria over the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, his once rather widely accepted ideas about social and economic justice are shrilly denounced

11 Mar 2015: mHealth Initiative to test the system with health workers in Gaibandha, Bangladesh.

16 Jan 2015: Here, for several centuries, an annual fair played a central role in the economic and cultural history of the east of England.

16 Jul 2015: Professor Sanjeev Goyal – Professor of Economics and Fellow of Christ’s College. ... It funds research across the UK and in other parts of the world, in disciplines ranging from archaeology to economics, from psychology to history, and from

20 Feb 2015: To test whether the poxvirus proteins share a common ancestor, we systematically compared them with all the cellular pro-survival molecules that regulate apoptosis.

12 Aug 2015: A total of 60 human participants played a game to test whether stripes influenced their perception of moving targets.

15 May 2015: The project is part of the Nexus Network, an extensive network coordinated by CISL, the University of Sussex and the University of East Anglia, and supported by the Economic and Social

29 Sep 2015: We recommend that new studies should be done to test whether more intensive efforts to reduce body weight and improve insulin resistance are effective in treating women with PCOS.”.

9 Mar 2015: Economics and Queens’ College at the University of Cambridge.

2 Feb 2015: The circumstances in which a protein closely associated with Parkinson’s Disease begins to malfunction and aggregate in the brain have been pinpointed in a

27 Mar 2015: Around the same time, the LISA Pathfinder mission will be launched as a test mission for establishing a gravitational wave detector of unprecedented sensitivity in space.

23 Oct 2015: Tom Cochrane: Open access has three points of origin. These, in no particular order, are the interests of the researcher in greater exposure and readership; the distorted economics of the price

20 Feb 2015: We are often typecast as introverts and extroverts. People do have biological propensities to behave in certain ways; some of us are naturally more talkative

16 Feb 2015: Lab tests, however, revealed that when this molecular chaperone encounters an amyloid fibril, it binds itself to catalytic sites on its surface. ... The research team then carried out further tests in which living mouse brain tissue was exposed to amyloid

6 Mar 2015: Diseases such as bubonic plague, smallpox, or scurvy, killed so many and caused such misery that they are still household names today, even if for most of us

12 Aug 2015: Furthermore, its reflective properties stand the test of time in a remarkable way: a Pollia fruit, locked in a seed drawer at Kew Gardens for 100 years, had lost none of

12 Jan 2015: Jason Rentfrow. Between 2009 and 2011, the BBC collected data from almost 590,000 people as part of its Big Personality Test.

25 Nov 2015: We now need to put to the test our ideas for helping the immune system by trying out a list of available drugs – and, in the initial stages of the research,

17 Nov 2015: The study, led by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Durham University, Macquarie University, and Trinity College Dublin, found that reductions

14 Sep 2015: Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece was first published in July 1865 and has never been out of print. Its remarkable appeal is marked this week by a programme of

18 Jun 2015: The increasing ubiquity of big data in the social sciences stems not just from the increasing use of massive datasets in areas such as education and economics, but also to a ... Some subjects, such as Psychology and Economics, already have all students

1 May 2015: In an article online in the journal Lancet Psychiatry, the HIP HOP PSYCH co-founders explain how Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics could help both those affected by

22 Jul 2015: In a study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of psychologists show that your thinking style – whether you are an ‘empathizer’ who likes to focus

2 Feb 2015: political parties, and the self-government in charge of economic development, healthcare, and foreign affairs.

28 Oct 2015: Look at Britain’s Stop-Go economic experience of the 1950s and 1960s. ... Today’s EU has its roots in economic crisis, not in economic success.

9 Mar 2015: How ‘old’ is your brain? Put another way, how ‘aged’ is your brain? The standard, scientific answer, suggests that the older you get, the greater the changes

14 Oct 2015: However, much more research is needed in this area. The study's findings could help test and improve climate models that are run for both past and future conditions.

7 Nov 2015: When we think of the First World War, we remember the many millions of men who died. But, as dangerous it was to be a soldier in the horror of the trenches, it