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Women are ‘running with leaded shoes’ when promoted at work, says study

19 April 2022

Promotion at work has greater emotional benefit for men than women, says a new study on gender and workplace emotion.

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Astronomers identify new method of planet formation

12 February 2021

Scientists have suggested a new explanation for the abundance in intermediate-mass exoplanets – a long-standing puzzle in astronomy.

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Do you say splinter, spool, spile or spell? English Dialects app tries to guess your regional accent

11 January 2016

A new app which tries to guess your regional accent based on your pronunciation of 26 words and colloquialisms will help Cambridge academics track the movement and changes to English dialects in the modern era.

Young male chimpanzees play more than females with objects, but do not become better tool users

07 October 2015

Research into differences between chimpanzees and bonobos in ‘preparation’ for tool use reveals intriguing sex bias in object manipulation in young chimpanzees – one that is partly mirrored in human children.

Tool use is 'innate' in chimpanzees but not bonobos, their closest evolutionary relative

16 June 2015

First evidence for a species difference in the innate predisposition for tool use in our closest evolutionary cousins could provide insight into how humans became the ultimate tool-using ape.

Women are ‘running with leaded shoes’ when promoted at work, says study

Astronomers identify new method of planet formation

Do you say splinter, spool, spile or spell? English Dialects app tries to guess your regional accent

Young male chimpanzees play more than females with objects, but do not become better tool users

Tool use is 'innate' in chimpanzees but not bonobos, their closest evolutionary relative

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