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Graphic from mypersonality app

Digital records could expose intimate details and personality traits of millions

11 March 2013

Research shows that intimate personal attributes can be predicted with high levels of accuracy from ‘traces’ left by seemingly innocuous digital behaviour, in this case Facebook Likes. The study raises important questions about personalised marketing and online privacy.

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Fungi collected for the Herbarium by Charles Darwin, found stored in a sheet of newspaper from 1828

Secrets of the plant kingdom uncovered after over a century in storage

26 September 2012

The relocation of the Herbarium’s one million pressed and dried plants to their new home in the University’s state-of-the-art Sainsbury Laboratory is turning up hundreds of unique specimens never seen since their collection centuries ago.

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Mentzelia lindleyi

How flowers use a touch of bling to woo the bees

04 July 2011

Beetles use it, birds use it. Plants use it too. Iridescence is the shimmery colour effect that makes things eye-catching.

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Cloud computing

Cloud computing and the philosophy of trust

05 April 2011

Some of the world’s finest minds in academic philosophy are debating the impact of the internet and cloud computing in Cambridge this week.

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The game of Go

Modelling uncertainty in the game of Go

01 February 2008

Cambridge researchers have analysed millions of patterns of potential moves to model the uncertainty of play in the ancient game of Go.

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