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Give more people with learning disabilities the chance to work, Cambridge...
A new study by historian Professor Lucy Delap (Murray Edwards College) argues that loud voices in the 20th-century eugenics movement have hidden a much bigger picture of inclusion in British workplaces...
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Cambridge academics elected 2023 British Academy Fellows
Professor Jaideep Prabhu and Professor Sujit Sivasundaram join the latest cohort of Fellows which highlight the depth and breadth of the SHAPE (Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and...
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Largest ever DNA and health research programme for children and young people...
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) BioResource’s D-CYPHR– the DNA, Children and Young People’s Health Resource – will play a key role in pioneering new treatments and creating...
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Churchill Archives Centre shares digitised treasures to celebrate 50 years
The Churchill Archives Centre is a world-leading collection of 20th century history, holding a wide-range of documents generated by more than 570 political, military & scientific luminary figures...
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Lights could be the future of the internet and data transmission
New internet technologies are being rapidly refined, and LED-based communication links are expected to be used in services and scenarios including Light-fidelity (Li-Fi), underwater communications,...
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Experts call for urgent mental health support for people living with long...
In a study published today in Rheumatology, researchers found that over half of the patients had rarely or never reported their mental health symptoms to a clinician, and that the range of possible...
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Selwyn College, Cambridge and Ameena Gafoor Institute create Visiting...
Selwyn College has appointed Professor Gaiutra Bahadur as the Ramesh and Leela Narain visiting bye-fellow in Indentureship Studies. Professor Bahadur is the author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of...
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Scottish rocks to play a key role in Mars space mission
A group of scientists, including from the University of Cambridge, have this week been collecting samples of rock from the NatureScot National Nature Reserve (NNR) as part of the NASA and European...
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Scientists discover secret of virgin birth, and switch on the ability in...
For the first time, scientists have managed to induce virgin birth in an animal that usually reproduces sexually: the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.Once induced in this fruit fly, this ability is...
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Genetic variant linked to lower levels of HIV virus in people of African...
Reported today in Nature, this is the first new genetic variant related to HIV infection discovered in over 25 years of research. It could, in the future, help direct the development of new treatment...
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Cambridge researchers awarded ERC funding to support commercial potential of...
Professor Cecilia Mascolo from the Department of Computer Science and Technology will use the funding to further her work on developing mobile devices – like commercially-available earbuds – that can...
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Robots cause company profits to fall – at least at first
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, studied industry data from the UK and 24 other European countries between 1995 and 2017, and found that at low levels of adoption, robots have a...
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Stealth swimmers: the fish that hide behind others to hunt
A new study provides the first experimental evidence that the trumpetfish, Aulostomus maculatus, can conceal itself by swimming closely behind another fish while hunting – and reduce the likelihood of...
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Brain’s ‘appetite control centre’ different in people who are overweight or...
The researchers say their findings add further evidence to the relevance of brain structure to weight and food consumption.Current estimations suggest that over 1.9 billion people worldwide are either...
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Treatments for poxviruses – including those causing mpox and smallpox – may...
Scientists studying how poxviruses evade natural defences in human cells have identified a new approach to treatment that may be more durable than current treatments.This follows their discovery of how...
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How sure is sure? Incorporating human error into machine learning
Human error and uncertainty are concepts that many artificial intelligence systems fail to grasp, particularly in systems where a human provides feedback to a machine learning model. Many of these...
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Death tolls from climate disasters will ‘balloon’ without investment in...
The climate crisis is increasing the frequency and intensity of floods, droughts and heatwaves, with Africa expected to be among the global regions hit hardest.Yet the systems and technologies across...
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Dark energy could be measured by studying the galaxy next door
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, found that it may be possible to detect and measure dark energy by studying Andromeda, our galactic next-door neighbour that is on a slow-motion...
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Reduced grey matter in frontal lobes linked to teenage smoking and nicotine...
Levels of grey matter in two parts of the brain may be linked to a desire to start smoking during adolescence and the strengthening of nicotine addiction, a new study has shown.A team of scientists,...
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Switching ‘spin’ on and off (and up and down) in quantum materials at room...
Spin is the term for the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons, which is referred to as up or down. Using the up/down spin states of electrons instead of the 0 and 1 in conventional computer logic...
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