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Prime Minister kidnap plot revealed in Lord Hailsham’s secret papers

A 1964 plot by left-wing students to kidnap Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home has been revealed for the first time in the coded diaries of former Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham.

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International award for distinguished Cambridge Social Anthropologist

One of the world’s most renowned scholars of Soviet and post-Socialist Russia and Asia has received a prestigious prize for her work on concepts of freedom.

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Intellectual property policy briefing in Cambridge

Cambridge researchers are invited to learn more about the University’s Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) policy in a seminar to be held on Monday 14 April.

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Power to the people as photography exhibition opens

The work of Magnum photographer Mark Power - who covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and won a prestigious award for his interpretation of the Shipping Forecast - is the subject of a major exhibition at Cambridge University.

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Heart disease predetermined by oxygen levels in the womb

The amount of oxygen available to a baby in the womb can affect their susceptibility to developing cardiovascular disease later in life.

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Unlocking the potential of mature women students

Representatives from Lucy Cavendish made a visit to Denman College, the residential college owned by the Women’s Institute, earlier this week to discuss potential for the two institutions to work together.

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Exhibition gets to the art of science

What do artist David Nash and Nobel Prize-winning chemist Aaron Klug have in common?

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New research provides insight into menopause

Insight into why females of some species undergo menopause while others do not has proven elusive despite an understanding of the biological mechanisms behind the change.

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Innovative engineering programme celebrates its completion

An innovative collaboration between the Teaching for Learning Network (TfLN), and the University’s Department of Engineering is celebrating the successful completion of a one-year project to update ‘practical’ teaching in the department.

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New evidence for star formation from recently discovered galaxies

The strongest burst of star formation occurred two billion years after the Big Bang according to new research led by a Cambridge academic.

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Major international award for world’s leading group theorist

One of the most prestigious prizes for mathematics has been awarded to a Cambridge professor for his outstanding work in the study of symmetry.

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Mark Prisk MP visits Judge Business School

The Shadow Minister for Enterprise, Mark Prisk MP, visited Cambridge today on a fact-finding mission.

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