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Climate change threat to seabirds must be properly considered for their...
Seabirds such as kittiwakes and puffins are being put at higher risk because of a disconnect between conservation efforts on the ground, and research knowledge of the threats to these birds from...
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Effectiveness of antibiotics significantly reduced when multiple bugs present
In the study, published today in The ISME Journal, researchers say that even a low level of one type of microbe in the airways can have a profound effect on the way other microbes respond to...
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Supermassive black holes put a brake on stellar births
Star formation in galaxies has long been a focal point of astronomy research. Decades of successful observations and theoretical modelling resulted in our good understanding of how gas collapses to...
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University welcomes suspension of NSS boycott
Statement on the National Student Survey 2022:Following discussions between the Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) and sabbatical officers from Cambridge SU, we are announcing actions to be taken...
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Crop Science Centre to conduct field trials of genetically modified barley...
A field trial of genetically modified and gene edited barley is due to be planted this April. The research is evaluating whether improved crop interactions with naturally occurring soil fungi promote...
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Lack of transparency over cost of conservation projects hampers ability to...
A review of 1,987 published reports of conservation interventions has found that only 8.8% reported the total cost of the intervention, and many of these were not detailed or standardised. The authors...
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Dense bones allowed Spinosaurus to hunt underwater
Spinosaurus is the biggest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered—even bigger than T. rex—but the way it hunted has been a subject of debate for decades. Based on its skeleton, some scientists have...
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Scientists find that the impact of social media on wellbeing varies across...
In a study published today in Nature Communications, the researchers show that, in UK data, girls experience a negative link between social media use and life satisfaction when they are 11-13 years old...
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Greater business-university collaboration will reap rewards, says new report
Valuable interactions between businesses and universities in the UK take many forms, but a lack of capacity by firms and information from universities is holding back even greater collaboration, says a...
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Guests to return to graduation ceremonies
From 29th April, family and friends will be able to attend these historic occasions in person, although the live streaming service will continue.Degree Congregations are ceremonial meetings of the...
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Poorly conceived payment-on-results funding threatens to undermine education aid
A payment on results approach to delivering education aid, which is championed by international institutions including the World Bank, is in danger of backfiring in some of the countries it aims to...
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HRH The Prince of Wales visits world-leading Cambridge sustainability...
At a reception for the opening of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s (CISL) low carbon HQ and its new green entrepreneur hub, The Prince of Wales met with design and...
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Cambridge Festival to host a series of high-profile talks on Ukraine
The Cambridge Festival, which began on 31st March and runs until the 10th of April, will host a series of high-profile talks focussing on the war in Ukraine. The text in this work is licensed under a...
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‘Robot scientist’ Eve finds that less than one third of scientific results...
The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, analysed more than 12,000 research papers on breast cancer cell biology. After narrowing the set down to 74 papers of high scientific interest, less...
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Colleges for mature students launch Cambridge 21+
“As someone who had spent some time working and then as a stay-at-home Mum, I did not have the confidence to imagine that a prestigious university such as Cambridge could ever be a viable option for...
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Lessons from modern languages can reboot Latin learning
Fan fiction, Minecraft and Taylor Swift lyrics are hardly the stuff of traditional Latin lessons. They are, however, part of an expanding repertoire that teachers are successfully drawing on to deepen...
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Founding headteacher appointed to lead new Cambridge Mathematics School
Maths education expert Clare Hargraves will lead the state-funded specialist sixth-form college, which is being created by multi-academy trust The Eastern Learning Alliance (ELA) in collaboration with...
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New Head at Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds
Christine has served as Interim Head of Seed Funds since February 2021. She brings a broad range of experience to the role, drawing particularly on previous positions within Cambridge Enterprise. These...
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Trainee teachers made sharper assessments about learning difficulties after...
The study, with 178 trainee teachers in Germany, was carried out by a research team led by academics at the University of Cambridge and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich). It provides...
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Women in England had predominantly negative experiences of childbirth during...
This is in contrast with 33% of parents who said they had a positive experience, and 20% who had a ‘neutral’ experience of giving birth in England during this time.These are the findings of a study of...
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