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Non-detection of key signal allows astronomers to determine what the first...
Using data from India’s SARAS3 radio telescope, researchers led by the University of Cambridge were able to look at the very early Universe – just 200 million years after the Big Bang – and place...
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New study suggests climate change may be affecting animal body size
New evidence shows that some mammals increase in size in warmer settings, upsetting established norms and suggesting that climate change may be having an unexpected impact on animal body size.The...
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COVID has 'ruptured' social skills of the world’s poorest children, study...
School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have “severely ruptured” the social and emotional development of some of the world’s poorest children, as well as their academic progress, new evidence...
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Fitness levels can be accurately predicted using wearable devices – no...
Normally, tests to accurately measure VO2max – a key measurement of overall fitness and an important predictor of heart disease and mortality risk – require expensive laboratory equipment and are...
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Two Cambridge researchers awarded Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in...
Funded by the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Chair in Emerging Technologies scheme aims to identify global research visionaries and provide them with long-term support....
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Pedestrians choose healthy obstacles over boring pavements, study finds
Millions of people in the UK are failing to meet recommended targets for physical activity. Exercising 'on the go' is key to changing this but while walking along a pavement is better than nothing it...
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Mastercard Foundation African scholars tackle climate change at Cambridge
The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Cambridge will provide fully funded opportunities for 1,025 young people to complete interdisciplinary programs with a focus on climate...
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New initiative to promote innovation in the Greater Cambridge area
Innovate Cambridge is an initiative to create an inclusive vision for the future of Cambridge and its innovation ecosystem. The initiative was launched in September 2022 by the University of Cambridge,...
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Cambridge signs UN pledge on reversing biodiversity decline at COP15
The Nature Positive Universities Alliance launches at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada on Thursday 8 December with 111 universities from 44 countries, who have made individual...
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Protecting Europe’s seabirds
Numerous European seabirds are at risk from climate change, according to new research led by ZSL (The Zoological Society of London) in collaboration with the University of Cambridge.Researchers have...
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COP15: UN and Cambridge sign agreement to bolster conservation
The agreement has been made in recognition of the impact and alignment of the novel Masters course with the goals of the CBD Capacity Development framework and ultimately the importance of education...
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Webb telescope reaches new milestone in its search for distant galaxies
An international team of astronomers, including scientists at the Universities of Cambridge, Hertfordshire and Oxford, has reported the discovery of the earliest galaxies ever confirmed in our...
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Prostate cancer risk prediction algorithm could help target testing at men at...
CanRisk-Prostate, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and The Institute of Cancer Research, London, will be incorporated into the group’s CanRisk web tool, which has now recorded...
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UK-led robotic sky scanner reveals its first galactic fingerprint
The spectra provide a first glimpse of the sky from the WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE) – a unique upgrade to the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in La Palma on the Canary Islands.After...
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‘Cocktail’ vaccines could offer increased protection against future COVID-19...
In research published in Nature Communications, scientists show that the omicron variant of the virus is immunologically distinct from other variants such as the vaccine variant and the alpha and delta...
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Drought encouraged Attila’s Huns to attack the Roman empire, tree rings suggest
Hungary has just experienced its driest summer since meteorological measurements began, devastating the country’s usually productive farmland. Archaeologists now suggest that similar conditions in the...
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University of Cambridge restores native trees to Capability Brown landscape
The 58 trees were planted in December as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative at the Grade II listed Madingley Park, just outside of Cambridge, which is home to the University’s 16th-century...
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Technique for tracking resistant cancer cells could lead to new treatments...
Tumours are complex entities made up of many types of cells, including cancer cells and normal cells. But even within a single tumour there are a diverse range of cancer cells – and this is one reason...
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Paying farmers to create woodland and wetland is the most cost-effective way...
Incentivising farmers to restore some land as habitats for nature could deliver UK climate and biodiversity targets at half the taxpayer cost of integrating nature into land managed for food...
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Men may not ‘perceive’ domestic tasks as needing doing in the same way as...
Philosophers seeking to answer questions around inequality in household labour and the invisibility of women’s work in the home have proposed a new theory – that men and women are trained by society to...
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