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It’s time to show your love for the Polar Museum at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥â€™s Scott Polar Research Institute this weekend.

̽»¨Ö±²¥last volume of the expedition newspaper, South Polar Times, written by the men waiting for news of Captain Scott’s return from the South Pole in the Antarctic winter of 1912, has just been published in a limited edition by the Scott Polar Research Institute.

New funding and a generous bequest are helping researchers in Cambridge to explore the complexities of how gender works in the world.

It was the dawn of an age of prosperity and transformed Britain into an economic superpower but our rose-tinted view of the industrial revolution masks another side of its legacy, a new history suggests.

Cambridge Conservation Initiative’s (CCI), inaugural symposium, held on Wednesday, focused on how to conserve natural capital and the future of biodiversity.

̽»¨Ö±²¥latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.

New understanding of the physics of clouds is helping to model both climate change and the impact of volcanic eruptions and wild fires.

An ambitious project is making accessible some of the most important visual resources for research into international polar exploration.

As life expectancy increases, what can historical analysis of longevity tell us about limits to the human lifespan?

̽»¨Ö±²¥largest coordinated programme of international polar activities in 50 years – International Polar Year (IPY) – kicked off globally on 1 March 2007. Building on a 125-year history of previous polar events in 1882–1883, 1932–1933 and 1957–1958, the aim of IPY is to promote even greater international scientific collaboration to address issues of global importance within the Arctic and Antarctic.