Read more Cambridge University stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/14758/cambridge-university.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:56:10 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71359/asia-uk-challenge-us-supremacy-in-higher-ed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe United States is home to more top-level universities than any other country in the world, this year’s survey by Times Higher Education confirms, but its advantage may not last forever. Although 54 of the top 200 schools are in the US, Asia is making remarkable progress: Japan has 11...http://www.newser.com/story/71359/asia-uk-challenge-us-supremacy-in-higher-ed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 09 Oct 2009 18:36:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59549/scientists-locate-brains-sentimental-center.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt turns out sex and sentimentality are linked after all, reports Reuters. Scientists have pinpointed areas of the brain that determine an individual's warm and fuzzy feelings—which they say are the same regions that control sex and some food urges. Researchers hope the findings may help explain brain evolution...http://www.newser.com/story/59549/scientists-locate-brains-sentimental-center.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 20 May 2009 4:45:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55827/egg-from-darwin-voyage-comes-to-light.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe only egg known to have survived from Charles Darwin's round-the-world voyage on the Beagle has surfaced in Cambridge University's zoology museum, the BBC reports. A volunteer sorting through the museum's vast egg collection found the egg—from an ostrich-like bird in Uruguay—and realized it bore the naturalist's signature.http://www.newser.com/story/55827/egg-from-darwin-voyage-comes-to-light.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 10 Apr 2009 9:46:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/49695/uk-protester-lobs-shoe-at-chinas-wen.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA protester threw a shoe at China’s premier while he was giving a speech at Cambridge University in England today, the BBC reports. The young man shouted “how can the university prostrate itself with this dictator—how can you listen to the lies he’s telling?" before hurling a shoe at...http://www.newser.com/story/49695/uk-protester-lobs-shoe-at-chinas-wen.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 02 Feb 2009 13:35:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/40885/vikings-recast-as-cultured-fashionistas.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagVikings were just as interested in preening and handicrafts as they were in war and pillaging, the Telegraph reports. In a bid to educate youngsters who could well have Viking ancestry, British researchers are trying to change the popular view of the Norse explorers. "It seems that the Vikings may...http://www.newser.com/story/40885/vikings-recast-as-cultured-fashionistas.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 25 Oct 2008 15:09:30 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/40898/hawking-to-retire-from-cambridge-post.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagStephen Hawking will retire from his chair at Cambridge University at the end of this academic year, the Telegraph reports. But the esteemed physicist will continue working at the college in an emeritus position. Cambridge requires profs to step down when they reach 67, and Hawking’s birthday is in January....http://www.newser.com/story/40898/hawking-to-retire-from-cambridge-post.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 25 Oct 2008 14:15:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28661/pinched-oxford-wants-25b.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPrestigious Oxford University is pleading poverty and has begun a campaign to raise funds to make it competitive with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton for academic talent, reports the Christian Science Monitor. The university—actually a collection of individual colleges—aims to raise $2.5 billion, but even that is chump...http://www.newser.com/story/28661/pinched-oxford-wants-25b.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 29 May 2008 7:08:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28549/cambridge-poetry-students-analyze-this.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagStodgy? Never! Cambridge University surprised its English students with an exam requesting literary analysis of Amy Winehouse lyrics last week. Students compared a poem by 16th century poet and ne’er-do-well adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh with Winehouse’s “Love is a Losing Game,” and songs by Bob Dylan and Billie Holiday, reported...http://www.newser.com/story/28549/cambridge-poetry-students-analyze-this.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 May 2008 14:49:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/24686/humane-hunters-hound-foxy-humans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEngland banned fox hunting with hounds three years ago—but riding clubs unwilling to give up centuries of tradition or the thrill of the chase are recruiting human prey, ABC News reports. The runners drag along a dead animal—road kill—to leave a trail for the hounds, and are...http://www.newser.com/story/24686/humane-hunters-hound-foxy-humans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 16 Apr 2008 11:08:00 CDT