Farmed carnivores may become ‘disease reservoirs’ posing human health risk
24 August 2021Carnivorous animals lack key genes needed to detect and respond to infection by pathogens, a study has found.
Female scientists lead Cambridge success in Royal Society awards 2021
24 August 2021Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has become only the second woman to be awarded the Royal Society’s prestigious Copley Medal, the world’s oldest scientific prize.
Hospital-acquired COVID-19 tends to be picked up from other patients, not from healthcare workers
24 August 2021The majority of patients who contracted COVID-19 while in hospital did so from other patients rather than from healthcare workers, concludes a new study from researchers at the University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
10,000 autistic people to take part in the UK’s largest study of autism
24 August 2021An ambitious new research project, Spectrum 10K, launches today and will recruit 10,000 autistic individuals, as well as their relatives, living in the UK.
Integrated conservation strategies could simultaneously meet biodiversity, climate and water objectives
23 August 2021Managing a strategically chosen 30% of land for conservation could safeguard 70% of all terrestrial plant and vertebrate animal species, while simultaneously conserving around two-thirds of the world’s vulnerable carbon and clean water, according to a new study carried out by the Nature Map Consortium, involving the University of Cambridge.
‘Vegetarian’ giant tortoise filmed attacking and eating seabird
23 August 2021Researchers have captured on film the moment when a Seychelles giant tortoise, Aldabrachelys gigantea, attacked and ate a tern chick. This is the first documentation of deliberate hunting in any wild tortoise species.
Mathematical model predicts best way to build muscle
23 August 2021Researchers have developed a mathematical model that can predict the optimum exercise regime for building muscle.
Ageing cuttlefish can remember the details of last week’s dinner
18 August 2021Cuttlefish can remember what, where, and when specific things happened – right up to their last few days of life, researchers have found.
Worsening GP shortages in disadvantaged areas likely to widen health inequalities
18 August 2021Areas of high socioeconomic disadvantage are being worst hit by shortages of GPs, a trend that is only worsening with time and is likely to widen pre-existing health inequalities, say researchers at the University of Cambridge.
Europe-wide political divide emerging between cities and countryside – study
17 August 2021“Geography of disillusion” poses a major challenge for democratic countries across the continent, according to researchers.
