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New datasets will train AI models to think like scientists
The initiative, called Polymathic AI, uses technology like that powering large language models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini. But instead of ingesting text, the project’s models learn...
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Researchers deal a blow to theory that Venus once had liquid water on its...
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, studied the chemical composition of the Venusian atmosphere and inferred that its interior is too dry today for there ever to have been enough water...
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Professor Joya Chatterji awarded Wolfson History Prize 2024
This year’s Wolfson History Prize has been awarded to Joya Chatterji, Emeritus Professor of South Asian History and Fellow of Trinity College, for her book Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth...
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A third of people from Chicago carry concealed handguns in public before they...
Around a third (32%) of people who grew up in Chicago have carried a concealed firearm on the city streets at least once by the time they turn 40 years old, according to a major study of gun usage...
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War in Lebanon has turned a decade of education crisis into a catastrophe -...
The recent conflict in Lebanon has deepened a national education crisis in which children have already lost up to 60% of school time over the past six years, new research warns.The report, by the...
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Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore visits Cambridge overseas research centre
The Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) is hosting two projects that aim to aid Singapore’s business transition away from petrochemicals towards a net-zero...
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Cambridge researchers develop urine test for early detection of lung cancer
Researchers hope that early detection, through the simple urine test, could enable earlier treatment interventions, significantly improving patient outcomes and prognosis. Around 36,600 lives are saved...
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Imaging technique allows rapid assessment of ovarian cancer subtypes and...
The technique, called hyperpolarised carbon-13 imaging, can increase the detected signal in an MRI scanner by more than 10,000 times. Scientists have found that the technique can distinguish between...
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Professor Duncan Richards appointed as Head of Department of Medicine
Professor Richards joins Cambridge from the University of Oxford, where he has been since 2019. His particular research interest is the demonstration of clinical proof of concept of novel therapeutics...
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Wrong trees in the wrong place can make cities hotter at night, study reveals
Temperatures in cities are rising across the globe and urban heat stress is already a major problem causing illness, death, a surge in energy use to cool buildings down, heat-related social inequality...
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Cambridge to trial cutting-edge semiconductor technologies for wider use in...
Photonic chips transmit and manipulate light instead of electricity, and offer significantly faster performance with lower power consumption than traditional electronic chips. The Cambridge Graphene...
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Afghan journalist and TIME magazine woman of the year joins Cambridge college
A leading advocate for the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, in particular the right to education, Joya is the founder of Rukhshana Media, a news agency dedicated to telling the stories of...
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Cambridge rowers vie for place in The Boat Race 2025
The annual Trial VIIIs, the UK’s final rowing event of the year, serves as a dress rehearsal for The Boat Race, with two evenly matched Cambridge University Boat Club (CUBC) crews rowing the full...
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Massive black hole in the early universe spotted taking a ‘nap’ after overeating
Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before hibernating for the winter, or a much-needed nap after Christmas dinner, this black hole has overeaten to the point that it is lying dormant in its host...
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Early warning tool will help control huge locust swarms
Desert locusts typically lead solitary lives until something - like intense rainfall - triggers them to swarm in vast numbers, often with devastating consequences. This migratory pest can reach plague...
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