AI can be good for our health and wellbeing
07 April 2025Cambridge researchers are looking at ways that AI can transform everything from drug discovery to Alzheimer's diagnoses to GP consultations.
Minister for AI and Digital Government visits Cambridge to tour the DAWN supercomputer
13 January 2025The Minister for AI and Digital Government, Feryal Clark MP, visited the University of Cambridge on the day the Government announced their new AI Action Plan.
Artificial intelligence outperforms clinical tests at predicting progress of Alzheimer’s disease
12 July 2024Cambridge scientists have developed an artificially-intelligent tool capable of predicting in four cases out of five whether people with early signs of dementia will remain stable or develop Alzheimer’s disease.
Using AI to tackle society's biggest challenges
05 February 2024The winners of a new prize supporting ambitious ideas for how artificial intelligence can address critical societal issues are announced today, with projects spanning fertility, climate change, language and communication challenges, mental health, and how local councils deploy AI.
Tuning into brainwave rhythms speeds up learning in adults
31 January 2023The first study to show that delivering information at the natural tempo of our neural pulses accelerates our ability to learn.
AI could detect dementia years before symptoms appear
12 August 2021Artificial intelligence could spot the early signs of dementia from a simple brain scan long before major symptoms appear – and in some cases before any symptoms appear – say Cambridge researchers.
Cambridge University and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore establish new research centre to support lifelong learning
06 October 2020A new research centre focused on improving support for lifelong learning and cognitive agility opened on 1 October 2020 in Singapore.
Spotlight on children
01 November 2018Welcome to our new ‘Spotlight on children’, a focus on research taking place at the University of Cambridge relating to children and childhood – from health to education, language to literacy, parents to playtime, risk to resilience.
Lifelong learning and the plastic brain
19 November 2014Our brains are plastic. They continually remould neural connections as we learn, experience and adapt. Now researchers are asking if new understanding of these processes can help us train our brains.
