Teacher wins award for encouraging pupil
14 May 2024Teacher wins Educator's Award for encouraging pupil to apply for Foundation Year
2023 was the hottest summer in two thousand years
14 May 2024Researchers have found that 2023 was the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere in the past two thousand years, almost four degrees warmer than the coldest summer during the same period.
TRANSITION LIVE: PARK FARM
14 May 2024University of Cambridge's Park Farm hosted one of the most important new agricultural events on the UK farming calendar this month.
Over 20,000 people join search for new dementia treatments
14 May 2024More than 20,000 volunteers have been recruited to a resource aimed at speeding up the development of much-needed dementia drugs. The cohort will enable scientists in universities and industry to involve healthy individuals who may be at increased risk of dementia in clinical trials to test whether new drugs can slow the decline in various brain functions including memory and delay the onset of dementia.
Birth by C-section more than doubles odds of measles vaccine failure
13 May 2024Researchers say it is vital that children born by caesarean section receive two doses of the measles vaccine for robust protection against the disease.
Baby born deaf can hear after breakthrough gene therapy
09 May 2024A baby girl born deaf can hear unaided for the first time, after receiving gene therapy when she was 11 months old at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.
Call for safeguards to prevent unwanted ‘hauntings’ by AI chatbots of dead loved ones
09 May 2024Cambridge researchers lay out the need for design safety protocols that prevent the emerging “digital afterlife industry” causing social and psychological harm.
‘Wraparound’ implants represent new approach to treating spinal cord injuries
08 May 2024A tiny, flexible electronic device that wraps around the spinal cord could represent a new approach to the treatment of spinal injuries, which can cause profound disability and paralysis.
New vaccine effective against coronaviruses that haven’t even emerged yet
06 May 2024Researchers have developed a new vaccine technology that has been shown in mice to provide protection against a broad range of coronaviruses with potential for future disease outbreaks - including ones we don’t even know about
Ice shelves fracture under weight of meltwater lakes
03 May 2024Heavy pooling meltwater can fracture ice, potentially leading to ice shelf collapse
