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

Each year more than a million avalanches fall worldwide, killing around a hundred people in the Alps alone. Can mathematical models be used to predict and prevent these disasters?

Pioneering research shines new light on our understanding of the way we see the world. Optical fibres have now been found to exist in vertebrate eyes, channelling light down their length and delivering it without distortion straight to the cells that ‘see’.

A major funding boost for two ̽»¨Ö±²¥ museums will enhance the experience of visitors to their world-class collections.

A once in a lifetime trip to the Galapagos Islands by a ten-year old natural history enthusiast, inspired by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge's museums, will be shown on BBC One tonight (4 July).

̽»¨Ö±²¥future of energy consumption and its impact on the earth's resources is to form the central theme of a Cambridge conference featuring some of the biggest names in materials science.

̽»¨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.

̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge is to form one third of a new £6 million research collaboration looking at quantum physics.

Scientists, engineers, technologists and medics at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge are invited to participate in the current Athena Survey of Science Engineering and Technology (ASSET), which is open until 10 November 2006.

Two Cambridge students have collected prizes at the UK’s most important awards ceremony for science and engineering undergraduates.