Welcome to dataworld
Carrying out fieldwork in high-security subterranean data centres, Alex Taylor explores fears of technological failure in our data-dependent society. ...
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Welcome to Cambridge University's research collection, where you can find out about some of the research, discoveries and innovations that take place here. Whether you are at Cambridge, thinking about applying, or just curious about what happens at this famous University, this collection gives you a chance to find out something you didn't already know about the world around you!
Canine transmissible venereal tumour: the contagious cancer that conquered the world
Genetics of a canine transmissible tumour show how the world’s oldest cancer “metastasised” through the global dog population – and captured, maintain...
Lines of Thought: Understanding Gravity
Cambridge University Library is celebrating its 600th anniversary with an exhibition of priceless treasures communicating 4,000 years of human thought...
Lines of Thought: Revolutions in communications
From 3000-year-old Chinese oracle bones to Penguin paperbacks of the 20th century, the collections at Cambridge University Library chart the technolog...
Avian flu viruses which are transmissible between humans could evolve in nature
Research provides insight into feasibility of virus becoming airborne transmissible. It might be possible for human-to-human airborne transmissible av...
A glimpse of India
Britain has had a long history of interaction with India from the 17th century until the present day. During that time, a large number of Britons who ...
Calls vs. balls: An evolutionary trade-off
Howler monkeys are about the size of a small dog, weighing around seven kilos, yet they are among the loudest terrestrial animals on the planet, and c...
J is for Jay
The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, J is for Jay ...
The horses’ teeth
This set of 29 papier mache models of horses' teeth (Wh. 6135) was made by Dr Louis Auzoux in France in the 1890s. The original wooden case opens out ...