Cancer isn’t fair – but care should be
04 February 2024Listening to people's lived experiences is helping to improve the awareness and uptake of cancer care. On World Cancer Day, we take a look at...
Ancient seafloor vents spewed tiny, life-giving minerals into Earth’s early oceans
02 February 2024Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Western Australia have uncovered the importance of hydrothermal vents, similar to underwater geysers, in supplying minerals that may...
Swarming cicadas, stock traders, and the wisdom of the crowd
01 February 2024The springtime emergence of vast swarms of cicadas can be explained by a mathematical model of collective decision-making with similarities to models describing stock market...
Opinion: Britain needs to clean up its politics by reforming Whitehall and Westminster
01 February 2024Prof David Howarth, a commissioner on the UK Governance Project, outlines proposals that seek to fix defects in our political system increasingly exploited by those...
Caring for cancer patients
31 January 2024Meet Umaima Ahmad, co-founder and CEO of a Cambridge spinout that aims to keep chemotherapy patients safe from infection while sparing them unnecessary hospital visits.
Religious people coped better with Covid-19 pandemic, research suggests
30 January 2024Two Cambridge-led studies suggest that the psychological distress caused by lockdowns (UK) and experience of infection (US) was reduced among those of faith compared to...
Scientists identify how fasting may protect against inflammation
30 January 2024Cambridge scientists may have discovered a new way in which fasting helps reduce inflammation – a potentially damaging side-effect of the body’s immune system that...
Robot trained to read braille at twice the speed of humans
29 January 2024Researchers have developed a robotic sensor that incorporates artificial intelligence techniques to read braille at speeds roughly double that of most human readers.
Vision in the field: Photography from social anthropology
23 January 2024The University’s Department of Social Anthropology studies how people live: what they make, do, think and the organisation of their relationships, societies and cultures. Photography is a core part...
Removing largest wine glass serving reduces amount of wine sold in bars and pubs
18 January 2024Taking away the largest serving of wine by the glass – in most cases the 250ml option – led to an average reduction in the...