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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

30 Jun 2016: funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

11 Jan 2016: Trusts to facilitate equitable benefit sharing within local communities and promote long-term economic sustainability should be created;.

19 Feb 2016: In the 100 years since it was published, general relativity has passed every test that has been thrown at it, but one of its limitations is the existence of singularities.

12 Oct 2016: Initially funded by Cambridge’s Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account, the Whistle is now funded by the European Union as part of ‘ChainReact’, a multi-partner programme to

29 Mar 2016: Pregnant mothers – particular older mothers, whose offspring are at greatest risk of developing such disorders – are offered tests to predict the likelihood of genetic abnormalities. ... Between the 11th and 14th weeks of pregnancy, mothers may be

16 Feb 2016: Spinal cord injury is, in many respects, a testosterone disease, says Professor James Fawcett. What he means by this is that four out of five spinal cord

30 Sep 2016: Patrick’s policy internship at CSaP is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council Cambridge Doctoral Training Centre.

19 Apr 2016: Reports in both the media and from governments have suggested that the world is facing a dementia ‘tsunami’ of ever-increasing numbers, particularly as

19 Sep 2016: To verify the findings, additional tests were then carried out on samples taken from the brains of rats. ... At this stage we can only really speculate about the wider implications of these findings and more research is needed to test some of those ideas,

31 Oct 2016: Carrie Allison. A team of psychologists at the University of Cambridge has conducted a social psychology experiment to test the theory that an individual’s level of empathy influences their behaviour.

13 May 2016: A study of tropical butterflies has added to growing evidence that natural selection reduces species’ diversity by moulding parts of their genetic structure,

1 Jul 2016: It has been an emotional month for many in the UK. After the sadness and anger that followed the tragic murder of MP Jo Cox, many people now feel fearful and

17 Feb 2016: Restless, disordered, uncertain, impulsive, emotional – the teenage brain can be a confused fury of neural firings and misfirings. For most 14- to 24-year-olds

16 Feb 2016: Another study looked at how women’s spending habits would change during an economic recession.

12 Feb 2016: The drug, which is an approved anti-cancer treatment, has been shown to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, both in a test tube and in nematode worms. ... Using a test developed by study co-author Professor Tuomas Knowles, also from the Department

28 Oct 2016: These are essentially like miniature organs, which enable the researchers to study how these organs – for example, the liver – grow and to test possible drug candidates.

6 Sep 2016: These patients also sought out risks more, and showed a preference for novelty on lab tests.

29 Jan 2016: Researchers have successfully demonstrated how it is possible to interface graphene – a two-dimensional form of carbon – with neurons, or nerve cells, while

25 Feb 2016: Once you’re abstinent, the compulsivity or habits also improve. Now that we have this test we can start to cut across other addictions – is there an underlying neural process shared

12 Jan 2016: A second study from the team suggests that a drug used to treat paracetamol overdose may be able to help individuals who want to break their addiction and stop

22 Nov 2016: Women also played an important economic role. That women are listed in only 35 different occupations, however, shows that their opportunities were far more limited.

12 Jul 2016: We need to test Einstein’s general theory of relativity to breaking point. ... It also hints at a powerful new tool with which to test general relativity.

27 Jan 2016: For them, Kagame is seen as a stabilising force for the country and its best chance for continued socio-economic progress. ... They also require one that would consolidate the socio-economic gains made thus far.

18 Oct 2016: Many more are currently undergoing clinical trials to test their efficacy and safety. ... We will need clinical trials to test how effective they are in patients who do not have the chronic conditions for which the drugs have been developed, such as

25 Feb 2016: The project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is led by Professor Catherine Barnard and Dr Amy Ludlow from Cambridge’s Faculty of Law, and is launched today (Friday

16 Jun 2016: “Addiction does not happen overnight but develops from behaviour that has been repeated over and over again until individuals lose control,” said Dr Karen

10 Oct 2016: As part of the work of the Global Agenda Council on Mental Health from the World Economic Forum, 23 global corporate organisational case studies on mental health strategies were gathered and ... There is a growing body of evidence on the economic costs

11 May 2016: We used low educational attainment as a marker of social disadvantage – so it’s also an indication of lacking the social, economic, behavioural and psychological resources that might leave people more

4 Jan 2016: In late 2015 a Cambridge-based nonprofit released the Raspberry Pi Zero, a tiny £4 computer that was a whole £26 cheaper than the original 2012 model. The Zero

24 May 2016: The crisis revived a flagging IMF in 2009, and the organisation has since approved some of its largest loans to countries in economic trouble. ... The IMF has publicly acknowledged their objectives to include creating breathing space for borrowing