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Opinion: How Davos power brokers can start tackling major environmental risks

21 January 2016

Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography), Gemma Cranston (Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership) and Jonathan Green (Department of Geography) discuss what global powers need to do to tackle some of the biggest threats facing society.

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Opinion: Skinnydipping, spies and shortages: Deutschland 83 brilliantly evokes life in East Germany

21 January 2016

Henning Grunwald (Faculty of History) discusses how accurate the representation of life in Cold War era East Germany is in Channel 4 drama Deutschland 83.

Opinion: Harder than diamond: have scientists really found something tougher than nature’s invincible material?

19 January 2016

Paul Coxon (Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) discusses the materials that have each been heralded as the new “world’s hardest material”.

Skull of a man with multiple lesions on the side, probably caused by a club.

Opinion: Finding a hunter-gatherer massacre scene that may change history of human warfare

19 January 2016

Marta Mirazon Lahr (Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies) discusses the discovery, made by her and her team, of the oldest known case of violence between two groups of hunter gatherers.

Circuits patterned on a plastic substrate

Opinion: Why are flexible computer screens taking so long to develop?

18 January 2016

Stuart Higgins (Cavendish Laboratory) discusses the technology being developed to create flexible displays.

Opinion: Mysterious footprint fossils point to dancing dinosaur mating ritual

08 January 2016

David Norman (Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences) discusses how palaeontologists can interpret fossil footprints to find clues as to whether dinosaurs performed dance-like mating rituals.

Opinion: What science can tell us about the ‘world’s largest sapphire’

06 January 2016

Simon Redfern (Department of Earth Sciences) discusses how the "Star of Adam" sapphire was formed in the highlands of Sri Lanka.

Opinion: Why the Romans weren’t quite as clean as you might have thought

06 January 2016

Piers Mitchell (Department of Biological Anthroplogy) discusses what Roman toilets did for the health of the population.

Opinion: How frugal innovation can kickstart the global economy in 2016

04 January 2016

Jaideep Prabhu (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the frugal innovation revolution that is taking the world by storm.

Opinion: How we built a robot that can evolve – and why it won’t take over the world

18 December 2015

Fumiya Iida (Department of Engineering) discusses the "mother" robot he has built with his colleagues, and why reacting to developments in robotics with undue fear could stifle research and creativity.

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Opinion: How frugal innovation can kickstart the global economy in 2016

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