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Self-driving shuttle buses will return to West Cambridge Innovation District...
Up to 13 self-driving shuttle buses will be trialled for a year on Cambridge roads from early 2024, following an announcement of new joint government and industry support for self-driving transport...
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Combined steroid and statin treatment could reduce ‘accelerated ageing’ in...
Cambridge scientists gave new-born rats, which are naturally born prematurely, combined glucocorticoid steroids and statin therapy. The results, published today in Hypertension, show that the combined...
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Kettle’s Yard celebrates pioneering art project created with local school pupils
This week saw the launch of an exciting, interactive art installation following 18-months of collaboration between Kettle’s Yard, artist-in-residence Georgia Akbar and Castle School in Cambridge...
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Researchers devise a new path toward ‘quantum light’
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, along with colleagues from the US, Israel and Austria, developed a theory describing a new state of light, which has controllable quantum properties...
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New form of ice is like a snapshot of liquid water
The new form of ice is amorphous. Unlike ordinary crystalline ice where the molecules arrange themselves in a regular pattern, in amorphous ice the molecules are in a disorganised form that resembles a...
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Rare genetic disease may protect Ashkenazi Jews against TB
In research published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Cambridge scientists – with colleagues in the Netherlands, Spain, and Pennsylvania, USA – show that the same...
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GP survey reveals health and healthcare inequalities of trans and non-binary...
The study, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, also found that while trans and non-binary adults report no differences in access to primary care, they prefer to be able to...
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Childhood mental health problems resulting from early-life adversity drive...
Early-life adversity – such as poverty, illness or family conflict – has long been linked to mental health difficulties and poorer cognitive functioning as children grow up. But how these factors...
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Carbon emissions from fertilisers could be reduced by as much as 80% by 2050
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, found that two-thirds of emissions from fertilisers take place after they are spread on fields, with one-third of emissions coming from production...
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Cambridge engineer to co-lead earthquake reconnaissance mission to Turkey
Professor Emily So, Director of the Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment (CURBE) will be co-leading a UK team of engineers, seismologists and geologists on a reconnaissance...
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Hospitality and real estate sectors have highest rates of common mental...
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and University College London found significant gender disparities of common mental health problems against females in over half of the twenty industries...
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Public awareness of ‘nuclear winter’ too low given current risks, argues expert
There is a lack of awareness among UK and US populations of “nuclear winter”, the potential for catastrophic long-term environmental consequences from any exchange of nuclear warheads.This is according...
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Cambridge PhD students launch Turkey earthquake bursary fund
Elif Yumru, Mehmet Dogar and Zeynep Olgun, who are all History PhD students from Turkey, have created the bursary to collect donations, and show solidarity with those whose lives have been shattered by...
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Roadmap sets out new global strategy for development of more effective...
A global strategy is launched today to coordinate the complex research activities necessary for a new approach to coronavirus vaccine development. The aim is to develop more effective, longer lasting...
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‘Antisocial’ damselfish are scaring off cleaner fish customers – and this...
The meal of choice for the Caribbean cleaner fish, the sharknose goby, is a platter of parasites, dead tissue, scales and mucus picked off the bodies of other fishes. By removing these morsels, gobies...
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Voluntary UK initiatives to phase out toxic lead shot for pheasant hunting...
The pledge, made in 2020 by nine major UK game shooting and rural organisations, aims to protect the natural environment and ensure a safer supply of game meat for consumers. Lead is toxic even in very...
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Refreeze the Arctic Foundation funds marine cloud brightening research
The Cambridge Centre will work in close cooperation with RAF and Delft University of Technology Climate Institute (TUDCI) in the Netherlands on research to create methods for marine cloud brightening,...
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Social media posts around solar geoengineering ‘spill over’ into conspiracy...
The researchers analysed tweets 2009 and 2021 tagged with #geoengineering. They used a combination of natural language processing, deep learning and network analysis to explore how public emotions,...
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Daily 11 minute brisk walk enough to reduce risk of early death
In a study published today in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the researchers say that 11 minutes a day (75 minutes a week) of moderate-intensity physical activity – such as a brisk walk –...
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Cambridge spin-out receives £2.2 million to help improve cancer treatments
The spinout from the University’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology has been awarded this funding by the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) ‘Transition Challenge’ investment...
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