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Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’,...
Recent years have seen the emergence of AI tools marketed as an answer to lack of diversity in the workforce, from use of chatbots and CV scrapers to line up prospective candidates, through to analysis...
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Cambridge students first to receive new Ukraine STEM fund scholarships
The Ukraine Math and Science Achievement Fund launched this academic year with a $3 million donation from Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of U.S.-based global financial firm Citadel. The new multi-year...
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Assessments of thinking skills may misrepresent poor, inner-city children in...
In a newly-published study of almost 500 children from high-poverty, urban communities in the United States, researchers found that a widely-used assessment, which measures the development of thinking...
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Universal bus service to go electric, with extended route
As part of its commitment to sustainability and sustainable business travel, the University of Cambridge has agreed to award an eight-year contract to Whippet, to provide a fleet of new electric buses...
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Scientists detect dementia signs as early as nine years ahead of diagnosis
In research published today in Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, the team analysed data from the UK Biobank and found impairment in several areas, such as problem...
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Watching lithium in real time could improve performance of EV battery materials
The team, led by the University of Cambridge, tracked the movement of lithium ions inside a promising new battery material in real time.It had been assumed that the mechanism by which lithium ions are...
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Offshore carbon storage deployment and research needs to scale up for UK to...
Published by the Royal Society and led by University of Cambridge researchers,Locked Away – Geological Carbon Storage explores the latest evidence and technical considerations for permanently storing...
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UK policing: psychological damage among officers heightened by bad working...
High levels of trauma-related mental health disorders across UK police forces are partly the result of bad working conditions such as having too little time, sexual harassment, and dealing with...
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Cambridge researchers join new £2 million UK consortium to tackle monkeypox...
The consortium has received £2 million from the Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council and the Medical Research Council, both part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). It is led by the...
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Clinical trial for new stem cell-based treatment for Parkinson’s disease...
The Swedish Medical Products Agency has granted approval for the trial to proceed; ethical approval has already been obtained from the Swedish Ethics Review Authority. The team, led from Lund...
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Artificial intelligence powers record-breaking all-in-one miniature...
We see light and colours around us every day. However, to analyse the information it carries, we must analyse light using spectrometers, in the lab. These devices detect sparkles and substances that...
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Likelihood of receiving an autism diagnosis may depend on where you live
The latest findings, from researchers from the University of Cambridge in collaboration with researchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Newcastle University, are...
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New approach to ‘cosmic magnet’ manufacturing could reduce reliance on rare...
A team from the University of Cambridge, working with colleagues from Austria, found a new way to make a possible replacement for rare-earth magnets: tetrataenite, a ‘cosmic magnet’ that takes millions...
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Autistic people are more likely to experience depression and anxiety during...
In the study, led by researchers at the Autism Research Centre, 524 non-autistic people and 417 autistic people completed an online survey about their experience of pregnancy. Anyone who was pregnant...
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UK police fail to meet 'legal and ethical standards' in use of facial...
A team from the University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy created the new audit tool to evaluate “compliance with the law and national guidance” around issues such as...
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Companies’ ‘deforestation-free’ supply chain pledges have barely impacted...
Corporate pledges not to buy soybeans produced on land deforested after 2006 have reduced tree clearance in the Brazilian Amazon by just 1.6% between 2006 and 2015.This equates to a protected area of...
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Just like humans, more intelligent jays have greater self-control
This is the first evidence of a link between self-control and intelligence in birds.Self-control - the ability to resist temptation in favour of a better but delayed reward – is a vital skill that...
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Catholic Church can curb carbon emissions by returning to meat-free Fridays
In 2011, the Catholic bishops of England and Wales called on congregations to return to foregoing meat on Fridays. Only around a quarter of Catholics changed their dietary habits – yet this still saved...
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University and city council to explore feasibility of city centre heat...
If the study identifies it is feasible and government funding is available to develop the project further, a heat network – which could include heat provided by ground source energy - could eventually...
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Can cosmic inflation be ruled out?
The astrophysicists, from the University of Cambridge, the University of Trento, and Harvard University, say that there is a clear, unambiguous signal in the cosmos which could eliminate inflation as a...
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