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Bill Gates to celebrate scholars’ achievements
Leaders from academia, industry, politics and the charity sector will gather in Cambridge today to celebrate the achievements and impact of the Gates Cambridge Scholarships. Guests at the June 1 […]
The law of the sea
It took me a while to realise I was standing ninety centimetres from eleven Somali pirates. On 12 October 2011, I was seeking shelter from the sun on a shaded […]
The politics of healthy eating
Sarah Mummah was just an undergraduate when she set up her own non-profit tutoring and mentoring organisation and has built it up into an award-winning project with a team of […]
Fuelled by algae
Research which could bring forward the prospect of commercial-scale growing of algae as an alternative to petroleum products has been published in the Journal of Rheology. Global concerns about rapidly […]
Different perspectives
Sean Collins is used to straddling different cultures and disciplines. As a young boy he grew up in Germany, but moved to a German school in the US where the […]
Scholar scoops ABTA award
Gates scholar Molly Fox has won a prestigious doctoral research award from the Association of British Turkish Academics. She won first place in the category of Biological and Medical Sciences for […]
The evolution of genetic variation
One-letter switches in the DNA code occur much more frequently in human genomes than anticipated, but are often only found in one or a few individuals, according to new research […]
The ethical brain
Gates Cambridge alumna Molly Crockett is taking part in a BBC World Service programme airing this Saturday on the degree to which our moral beliefs are shaped by our neurochemistry and […]
The right to a good death
Liz Dzeng was working in a US hospital taking care of an 86-year-old woman dying of metastatic cancer. In line with the US health system, Liz, a doctor specialising in […]
Rallying call for global health
The editor-in-chief of the prestigious medical journal The Lancet used his Gates Distinguished Lecture to issue a rallying call for scientists to work together to tackle insidious world problems, from […]
