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Is Data Justice key to Climate Justice?
Bias in the collection of data on which Artificial Intelligence (AI) computer programmes depend can limit the usefulness of this rapidly growing tool for climate scientists predicting future scenarios...
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International collaboration identifies new breast cancer susceptibility genes
The study, published today in Nature Genetics, was led by teams at the University of Cambridge and Université Laval, Quebec.Current genetic tests for breast cancer only consider a few genes, such as...
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Largest genetic study of brain structure identifies how the brain is organised
Our brains are very complex organs, with huge variety between individuals in terms of the overall volume of the brain, how it is folded and how thick these folds are. Little is known about how our...
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Leading Cambridge neuroscientist appointed as Executive Chair of Medical...
The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan, has appointed Professor Patrick Chinnery as the next Executive Chair of the MRC.Michelle Donelan said: “Professor...
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Scientists develop test to identify people at risk of developing acute...
Researchers at the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (CSCI), the University of Cambridge’s Department of Haematology, and Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA)...
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Cambridge astronomer tops list of Royal Society Medal and Award winners
Lord Rees, a Fellow of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University, has been awarded the Royal Society’s Copley Medal for sustained, outstanding achievements...
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Community Open Map Platform project supporting green transition secures major...
Despite changes to the HM Treasury Green Book to encourage forms of valuation other than economic, local authorities are struggling to capture social, environmental and cultural value in a way that...
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Apollo Therapeutics secures $226.5 million to translate fundamental research...
The investment will be used to advance new treatments through clinical development and further fund Apollo’s drug discovery and development activities based on breakthroughs in basic medical research...
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Where's the trust? US climate deniers have no faith in universities
Based on a survey of thousands of U.S. voters, co-authors Cambridge Zero Fellow and Assistant Professor Ramit Debnath, Professor R. Michael Alvarez and Mr. Danny Ebanks from Caltech, found that...
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Lack of evidence hampers progress on corporate-led ecosystem restoration
An international team of scientists has analysed publicly available sustainability reports released by 100 of the world’s largest companies and found that despite many businesses claiming to actively...
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Healthy lifestyle can help prevent depression – and new research may explain why
In research published today in Nature Mental Health, an international team of researchers, including from the University of Cambridge and Fudan University, looked at a combination of factors including...
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Over a third of UK medical students do not receive sexual misconduct training
The study, published today in JRSM Open and based on responses by the UK’s 34 medical schools to Freedom of Information requests, shows there is no standardisation of training on sexual misconduct...
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Cambridge researchers announced as programme directors for new UK funding agency
ARIA is a government-funded agency that aims to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs that could benefit everyone. Many of society’s most important advances have stemmed from those with the...
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Roadside hedges can reduce harmful ultrafine particle pollution around schools
The research, a collaboration with Lancaster University, found that hedges can act as protective barriers against air pollution from major city roads by soaking up significant quantities of harmful...
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Cambridge Zero takes centre stage at Climate Week NYC
Professor Shuckburgh (Trinity and Darwin) will be at Climate Week NYC (17-24 September) to discuss how to address the challenges the world faces in keeping global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius....
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Machine learning models can produce reliable results even with limited...
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and Cornell University, found that for partial differential equations – a class of physics equations that describe how things in the natural world...
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Cambridge remains most intensive science and technological cluster in the world
The 2023 Global Innovation Index (GII) – which evaluates the top-level innovative capacity of countries and economies, and identifies local concentrations of world-leading activity – has named...
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Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all, study...
Researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit trained 120 volunteers worldwide to suppress thoughts about negative events that worried them, and found that not...
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How new model boosts supply and lowers prices for generic drugs
Civica Rx, a not-for-profit drug manufacturer founded by seven US health systems and three philanthropic organisations, increased supply security and lowered cost on aggregate for 20 drug products,...
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Widely-used COVID-19 antiviral could be helping SARS-CoV-2 to evolve
The drug works by disrupting the virus’s genome, causing it to develop random mutations as it replicates, weakening the virus to prevent replication, thereby enabling clearance of infection.But in...
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