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Study could help predict suicide in older adults

11 Mar 2010

Focussing too much on the present and not using past experience to make decisions could be linked to suicide in elderly depressed adults, researchers...

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nest

Mother knows best even before birth

10 Mar 2010

Mother birds communicate with their developing chicks before they even hatch by leaving them messages in the egg, new research by a team from the...

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Twilight literature

Researchers get serious about kids鈥 stuff

03 Feb 2010

A new centre for the study of children's literature, which will analyse material ranging from classics such as Alice In Wonderland to Disney films...

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Quantum

Behaviour of building block of nature could lead to computer revolution

31 Jul 2009

A team of physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles...

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Heliconius melpomene

On the wings of a butterfly

01 May 2009

Since Darwin鈥檚 time, Amazonian butterflies have intrigued biologists as examples of evolution in action.

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Green Algae

Scientists discover 鈥榙ancing鈥 algae

21 Apr 2009

Scientists at Cambridge 探花直播 have discovered that freshwater algae can form stable groupings in which they dance around each other...

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Corey Seehaus

探花直播human brain is on the edge of chaos

23 Mar 2009

There has been speculation for many years that the human brain lives 鈥渙n the edge of chaos鈥, at a critical transition point between randomness and...

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Grasshopper

A brain chemical changes locusts from harmless grasshoppers to swarming pests

30 Jan 2009

Scientists have uncovered the underlying biological reason why locusts form migrating swarms. Their findings, reported in today's edition of Science...

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brain

Obsessive compulsive disorder linked to brain activity

16 Jul 2008

Cambridge researchers have discovered that measuring activity in a region of the brain could help to identify people at risk of developing obsessive...

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Nicola Clayton

Clever crows and dancing duets

01 May 2008

Nicky Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Experimental Psychology, has thrown the doors wide open on animal cognition...

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Cambridge plays role in insurance industry's new climate-friendly initiative

14 Sep 2007

探花直播insurance industry this week launched a new initiative to tackle the challenge of climate change and encourage more climate-friendly customer...

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Stacks of Clothes

Well dressed?

01 Apr 2007

As clothes become cheaper and fashion becomes 'faster', how are we to balance our consumption with environmental, economic and social sustainability...

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