How ‘hopeless athletes’ created tiddlywinks society to win Cambridge Blue
Three Cambridge University alumni have marked the 70th anniversary of their alma mater’s tiddlywinks club that they set up as ...
This 922-year-old university in England produces the most billionaires—and Albert Einstein, Emma Watson and Bill Clinton are among its famous alumni
The oldest university in the English-speaking world, The University of Oxford, has just been ranked the leading ...
New UK children’s hospital seeks to combat stigma around mental illness
A new children’s hospital in Cambridge will become the first in Europe, and one of the first in the world, to fully combine ...
Friends who turned tiddlywinks into a competitive sport mark 70 years of club
Three friends who helped start competitive tiddlywinks so they could represent Cambridge University at sport have marked the ...
Local leaders publish open letter to position Greater Cambridge as ‘the beating heart of national renewal’
‘If science were a country then Cambridge would likely be its capital,’ the letter reads ...
Hometown heroes: celebrating the music of Newcastle
From The Animals to Sam Fender, Eve Robson explores the many musical talents that call Newcastle home Part of the joy in ...
Russell Group student unions investigate pro-Palestine societies’ links to activists
Almost two dozen groups at 19 British universities have declared ‘unwavering solidarity’ with militant anti-Israel network ...
Cambs hospitals where patients wait the longest in A&E as winter crisis continues
Patients are facing huge delays in emergency departments. Find out the state of the NHS in your local area using our gadget ...
Why's it called that? Holden the town, like the Harvard chapel, takes name from London banker
It is called Holden Chapel, a label reflecting its benefactor and original purpose. (Its standing as a chapel didn’t last ...
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Cambridge scientists explore science of loneliness - and find interactions may help us avoid disease
A team led by scientists at the University of Cambridge, and Fudan University, China, examined the ‘proteomes’ – collection ...
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Change to chemotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma patients could reduce impacts, say Cambridge researchers
A simple change to the chemotherapy regimen for Hodgkin lymphoma patients could reduce the long-term health impacts from ...
Why private girls’ school PLC Sydney is NSW’s first to offer British Cambridge A-Levels
Fifteen Sydney schoolgirls are set to become guinea pigs in an Australian educational experiment, as one of the city’s most ...