Scientists have uncovered a new region in the genome that is responsible for the body's ability to regulate bad cholesterol.

History enthusiasts have the chance to handle prehistoric artefacts and to see how they were made at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology this Saturday.

The mysteries of medieval Irish literature, book making, influenza and particle physics were explained by a group of future Cambridge research stars this week.

The Rt Hon. Peter Mandelson, European Commissioner for Trade, will give the 2008 Alcuin lecture at Cambridge University on Friday, 8 February.

International communications firm Cubitt Consulting are launching a new bursary scheme to help underprivileged students at Jesus College.

An extraordinary documentary about Joseph Dresnok, the last US GI to defect to North Korea during the Cold War, will be screened at Cambridge University this week.

Microsoft Research, the basic research arm of Microsoft Corp., announced today that it will open a new lab in Cambridge, Mass., in July 2008. As the company’s sixth research center and its first on the East Coast of the United States, Microsoft Research New England will build on Microsoft’s commitment to collaborate with the broader research community and advance the state of the art in multiple areas of computing research.

Microsoft Research, the basic research arm of Microsoft Corp., announced today that it will open a new lab in Cambridge, Mass., in July 2008. As the company’s sixth research center and its first on the East Coast of the United States, Microsoft Research New England will build on Microsoft’s commitment to collaborate with the broader research community and advance the state of the art in multiple areas of computing research.

The quality of the University Counselling Service's work has been recognised with a national award.

More than 1,000 secondary school pupils in the East of England could soon be learning a new language online with Cambridge University.

Poet John Milton's revolutionary ideas about freedom will be discussed at a talk by Professor Quentin Skinner at the University this evening.

Honorary President of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, C N R Rao has been elected as the Distinguished Research Professor of Materials by the University of Cambridge.