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Students have placed red Santa hats on all four 150ft spires of King's College Chapel at Cambridge University in an end of term prank. The hats will have to be removed from the ancient spires by a professional steeplejack. It...

An implanted vaccine eliminated melanoma tumors in mice, offering hope of improved treatment for people with skin cancer, U.S. researchers said. Using polymer disks the size of a fingernail containing tumor-specific antigens, researchers at Harvard University said they reprogrammed the...

Surge in swine flu among UK children may lead to intensive care bed crisis Warning from academics comes as Department of Health figures show sharp fall in number of new cases in youngsters The UK could run out of intensive...

Britain's Nobel winner condemns science funding reform Cambridge chemist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan shares prize for showing how cells translate genetic code into complex life A flat bicycle tyre made a grumpy Venkatraman Ramakrishnan doubt news he was sharing the 2009 Nobel...

An angry man threw a boot at former Australian prime minister John Howard during a debate at Britain's Cambridge University, the quick-thinking student who caught the shoe said on Thursday. Andrew Chapman, a senior officer at the Cambridge Union Society...

S tate Sen. Anthony Galluccio had been cited for leaving the scene of an accident in Cambridge on Sunday, after the car he was driving rear-ended another, injuring a passenger in that vehicle, Cambridge police said...Sunday, Galluccio’s car hit a...

The National Heritage Memorial Fund's award to Cambridge University puts it closer to raising the £1.25m needed to permanently secure the collection. It includes a manuscript of Sassoon's statement refusing to return to duty after being wounded. The poet, whose...

Acclaimed wheelchair-bound British scientist Stephen Hawking is to hand over his top Cambridge University job this week, the prestigious seat of learning said. Hawking, whose book ‘A Brief History Of Time’ became an international best-seller, selling more than nine million...

Food and Drug Administration is holding off on its review of Lumizyme, a treatment for the rare muscular disorder Pompe disease, until drug maker Genzyme Corp. resolves manufacturing problems at its Allston plant. The Cambridge biotechnology firm said it is...