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It was thought that no bronzes by Michelangelo had survived - now experts believe they have found not one, but two - with a tiny detail in a 500-year-old drawing providing vital evidence. - See more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/michelangelo-bronzes-discovered They are naked, beautiful, muscular and ride triumphantly on two ferocious panthers. And now the secret of who created these

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/whale-tale-a-dutch-seascape-and-its-lost-leviathan Earlier this year a conservator at the Hamilton Kerr Institute made a surprising discovery while working on a painting owned by the Fitzwilliam Museum. As Shan Kuang removed the old varnish from the surface, she revealed the whale that had been the intended focus of the scene. In 1873 the Fitzwilliam Museum,

Footage of African greater honeyguide killing newly hatched foster sibling. For more info visit: www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/natural-born-killers

Meet Zoe: a digital talking head which can express human emotions on demand with “unprecedented realism” and could herald a new era of human-computer interaction. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/face-of-the-future-rears-its-head

An international team of astronomers has found a pulsating, dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns. This is the brightest pulsar – a dense stellar remnant left over from a supernova explosion – ever recorded. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/astronomers-discover-the-mighty-mouse-of-stellar-remnants

A female cricket mounted on a trackball walks towards the sound made by a male cricket. More information at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/neural-circuit-in-the-cricket-brain-detects-the-rhythm-of-the-right-mating-call

Playful naked mole-rats contribute to research into devastating medical conditions by Dr Ewan St. John Smith, Department of Pharmacology, who has been studying them for the past ten years. Find out more: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/n-is-for-naked-mole-rat

The winning photos from this year's Department of Engineering photo competition, sponsored by ZEISS. See many more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bullet-holes-and-graphene-caves-picturing-engineering Image credits: Rachel Garsed, Andrew Payne, Dilek Ozgit and Andrea De Luca, Kenichi Nakanishi, Alex Kendall.

© Phlesch Bubble A major fossil discovery in Canada sheds new light on the development of the earliest vertebrates, including the origin of jaws, the first time this feature has been seen so early in the fossil record http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-fossil-find-pinpoints-the-origin-of-jaws-in-vertebrates

Artist's impression of 55 Cancri e orbiting its parent star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The most detailed map of a small, rocky ‘super Earth’ to date reveals a planet almost completely covered by lava, with a molten ‘hot’ side and solid ‘cool’ side. Read more: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/map-of-rocky-exoplanet-reveals-a-lava-world