The codemakers
24 Jan 2025The 2025 Darwin Lecture series looks at codes, be they computational, mathematical, biological, linguistic or even musical.
Autistic perspectives sought for new study on comics and inclusion
23 Jan 2025Autistic people in the UK are being invited to participate in a University of Cambridge-led project exploring the uniquely powerful connection...
Brits still associate working-class accents with criminal behaviour – study warns of bias in the criminal justice system
17 Jan 2025People who speak with accents perceived as ‘working-class’ including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as...
Cambridge leads governmental project to understand impact of smartphones and social media on young people
16 Jan 2025Cambridge researchers are leading the first phase of a new research project that will lay the groundwork for future studies into the impact on...
Minister for AI and Digital Government visits Cambridge to tour the DAWN supercomputer
13 Jan 2025The Minister for AI and Digital Government, Feryal Clark MP, visited the University of Cambridge on the day the Government announced their new AI...
Coming AI-driven economy will sell your decisions before you take them, researchers warn
30 Dec 2024Conversational AI agents may develop the ability to covertly influence our intentions, creating a new commercial frontier that researchers call the “...
What was the Star of Bethlehem?
23 Dec 2024It’s a key feature of a school nativity play, but what’s the science behind the Star of Bethlehem?
Early warning tool will help control huge locust swarms
19 Dec 2024A new tool that predicts the behaviour of desert locust populations will help national agencies to manage huge swarms before they devastate food...
Afghan journalist and TIME magazine woman of the year joins Cambridge college
11 Dec 2024Zahra Joya, an Afghan journalist and one of TIME magazine's Women of the Year 2022, has been appointed By-Fellow at Hughes Hall.
Wrong trees in the wrong place can make cities hotter at night, study reveals
10 Dec 2024While trees can cool some cities significantly during the day, new research shows that tree canopies can also trap heat and raise temperatures at...
War in Lebanon has turned a decade of education crisis into a catastrophe - report
05 Dec 2024Israel-Hezbollah conflict has deepened an education crisis in which children have lost up to 60% of schooling in 6 years, study shows.
A third of people from Chicago carry concealed handguns in public before they reach middle age
05 Dec 2024Major 25-year study reveals a ‘dual pathway’ for when people start carrying.