Cooperation

Cooperative communities emerge in transparent social networks

09 March 2015

An online experiment reveals that the overall level of cooperation in a group almost doubles when the previous actions of all its members are rendered transparent. When all social connections within the group are also made transparent, the most cooperative band together to form their own community – ostracizing the less cooperative.

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Black hole trio holds promise for gravity wave hunt

25 June 2014

The discovery of three closely orbiting supermassive black holes in a galaxy more than four billion light years away could help astronomers in the search for gravitational waves: the ‘ripples in spacetime’ predicted by Einstein.

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Surface profile of a spall in a bearing steel

Share and share alike

24 August 2012

A new resource launched today by the University of Cambridge will help researchers seek out and access high-value equipment across five universities.

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Violin

Creative research on musical performance

01 September 2009

A pioneering research centre studying live musical performance as creative practice launches in the Faculty of Music in October with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

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