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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

25 Feb 2015: There was a time when diagnosing and treating cancer seemed straightforward. Cancer of the breast was breast cancer, for example, and doctors could only choose

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.

24 Apr 2015: Animal research plays an essential role in our understanding of health and disease and in the development of modern medicines and surgical techniques. Without

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.”.

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.

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

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

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

24 Sep 2015: The small tumours concealed in the adrenal gland are “unmasked” in early pregnancy, when a sudden surge of hormones fires them into life, leading to raised

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

10 Jul 2015: Drosophila melanogaster, better known as the humble fruit fly, has emerged as the unlikely basis of an attempt to help to stem a “brain drain” from African

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,

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.

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

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

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.

18 Mar 2015: “Breast implants to carry cancer warning” read the headline of an article on the MailOnline website today. This follows the outcome of a study by the French

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.

28 Dec 2015: The discovery, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, calls into question our current understanding of the processes that

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

9 Mar 2015: In a study funded by Cancer Research UK, scientists compared tiny variations in the genetic make-up of more than 120,000 women of European ancestry, with and

19 Mar 2015: The team conducted lab experiments with adult and juvenile damselfish to test whether this colour change affects dottyback hunting success.

6 May 2015: More research is now required to see whether such a test could give doctors that early warning sign that urgent treatment is needed.”.

19 Oct 2015: The researchers studied tiny protein-producing factories, called ribosomes, isolated from cells. They capitalised on improvements made at the LMB to a

26 Feb 2015: tests at enrolment, 28 and 36 weeks into pregnancy and then two days and six months after the birth of their child. ... Urinary or salivary tests suggested that ten women (4%) had smoked cigarettes whilst claiming vouchers.

1 Jul 2015: Scroll to the end of the article to listen to the podcast. The Parker Library (Corpus Christi College) is proud of its elephants. At least five illustrations

19 May 2015: In a study published today in the journal Immunity, a collaboration of researchers from the UK and the USA, led by Professor Gillian Griffiths at the

2 Sep 2015: Scroll to the end of the article to listen to the podcast. ‘Bizarre’ is a kinder word than ‘ugly’ and may be a more accurate description when it comes to a

3 Jun 2015: They devised a series of experiments in which they placed stuffed currawongs in front of thornbill nests to test when thornbills use such trickery, followed by experiments testing how currawongs respond

30 Nov 2015: trauma. If you want to find out how you score on musical ability, preferences, and personality, you can take these tests atPhD candidate, psychology, University of Cambridge.

18 Dec 2015: Our models are not the exact truth, but in the absence of fossils these new methods can be used to test hypotheses for any palaeontological question, whether it is horses or

12 Mar 2015: Over the past 40 years the family has altered in ways that few people imagined back in the days of the Janet and John reading books in which mummy baked and

18 Jun 2015: As the tests use a highly sensitive method of detection of bacterial contamination, the numbers of MRSA bacteria present may be low.

9 Dec 2015: and erosion remodels our coastline – with large economic and social costs.

25 Sep 2015: So it also appears that higher education provided some protection from the economic downturn.

24 Nov 2015: economic gains.

23 Nov 2015: The researchers carried out a further test where 20 sex addicts and 20 matched healthy volunteers underwent brain scans while being shown a series of repeated images – an undressed woman, a

27 Feb 2015: Buddhism, in the shape of over 700 monasteries populated by some 80,000 lamas, had for centuries exerted an influence that extended deep into politics, economics and everyday life, rather in

29 Jun 2015: The researchers melt together precise amounts of each of the different elements to obtain a 5cm bar, then exhaustively test the bar’s mechanical properties and analyse its microscopic structure. ... test each reasonable mixture of components.

28 May 2015: The tests due to be introduced in September are not what teachers need: they are labour-intensive and potentially stressful for four-year-olds. ... These tests seek to provide baseline assessments of a child’s ‘school readiness.’ However, the

18 Nov 2015: Scroll to the end of the article to listen to the podcast. “It was already looking at me when I saw it. As it started moving down the hill towards me, I was

25 Mar 2015: Seven university research projects from across the UK will receive over £100 million of investment in 2016-17, to drive innovation and economic growth. ... UK universities tackle major national and global challenges, and make a significant contribution

3 Aug 2015: At the end of the four weeks, the researchers tested all participants’ episodic memory using the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) PAL, as well as their level of enjoyment and ... the CANTAB PAL test relative to the control

23 Dec 2015: of Standards and Technology, to develop and test their material over the next 12 months.