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Almost 2,000 years after its last native speakers disappeared, the sound of Ancient Babylonian is being lined up for an unlikely comeback, in an online audio archive.

A system which enables psychologists to track people's emotional behaviour through their mobile phones has been successfully road-tested by researchers.

Thousands of teenagers have had the chance to come face to face with some the world's finest physicists at the 26th annual Physics at Work Exhibition at the University of Cambridge.

The University is saddened to report the sudden death last Friday of an eminent former Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

It was the dawn of an age of prosperity and transformed Britain into an economic superpower - but our rose-tinted view of the industrial revolution masks another side of its legacy, a new history suggests.

Cambridge Enterprise, the University of Cambridge's commercialisation office, and the Carbon Trust have announced the launch of Eight19 Limited, a new solar energy company which will develop and manufacture high performance, lower cost plastic solar cells for high-growth volume markets.

Efforts to protect the wild tiger should be intensively focused on a few key sites if conservationists are to have any chance of saving it from extinction, a new study says.

A Cambridge University historian is drumming up support for the preservation of a tiny burial ground that is the final resting place of eminent thinkers including Ludwig Wittgenstein, physicist John Cockroft, and astronomer John Couch Adams.

The most powerful atom resolving microscope in the UK was today revealed at the University of Cambridge.

Leading conservationists warn that in order to save biodiversity, society's behaviour must change. An innovative grouping of conservation scientists and practitioners have come together to advocate a fundamental shift in the way we view biodiversity.

The effect on the teenage brain of books like Twilight and the Harry Potter series is to be examined at Cambridge University.

'Mindfulness', the process of learning to become more aware of our ongoing experiences, increases well-being in adolescent boys, a new study reports.

Artwork telling the emotional story of a mother and son - who were reunited after 45 years by a twist of fate - will be shown to the public for the first time this weekend.

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London today outlined a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear energy.

A project to document the unique language and culture of a remote Inuit community which is threatened by the effects of climate change is being launched by a University of Cambridge researcher.

Scientific advances, ethical issues in personalised medicine, genetic testing and stem cell research were among the topics discussed during a science youth parliament held at the University of Cambridge from August 4-6.

An online database which promises to change our understanding of English society on the eve and in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest has been launched online. "PASE Domesday", which is released today, links information from the Domesday survey (1086) to maps showing the location of estates throughout England.

Cambridge University Library has taken delivery of the personal archive of musician, broadcaster and writer Deryck Cooke (1919-1976).