University spin-out secures funding to improve AI energy efficiency and bandwidth
24 March 2025A University of Cambridge spin-out company working to improve AI efficiency and bandwidth has raised €25 million in new funding.
How will history tell our stories?
24 March 2025Historian Helen McCarthy helps us make sense of our recent past. She infuses her subjects – from working mothers to modern retirees – with urgency...
Powerful new MRI scans enable life-changing surgery in first for adults with epilepsy
21 March 2025Scientists have developed a new technique that has enabled ultra-powerful MRI scanners to identify tiny differences in patients’ brains that cause treatment-resistant epilepsy. It has...
Fully AI driven weather prediction system could start revolution in forecasting
20 March 2025A new AI weather prediction system, developed by researchers from the University of Cambridge, can deliver accurate forecasts tens of times faster and using thousands...
Dementia patients and their carers to be asked about direction of drug research
19 March 2025Cambridge researchers are seeking the views of people with lived experience of dementia – patients and their friends and families – on which existing drugs...
Conservation efforts are bringing species back from the brink
18 March 2025A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that while the natural world continues to face a biodiversity crisis, targeted conservation efforts are...
Genetic study reveals hidden chapter in human evolution
18 March 2025Modern humans descended from not one, but at least 2 ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the...
Make Indian Sign Language official language and open more schools for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, study advises
17 March 2025Around one in five (over 19%) of India’s deaf and hard-of-hearing children were out-of-school in 2014, according to a survey conducted for the Indian Government. A...
Cambridge and London hospitals to pioneer brain implants to combat alcohol and opioid addiction
17 March 2025People suffering from severe alcohol and opioid addiction are to be offered a revolutionary new technique involving planting electrodes in the brain to modulate brain...
Free tech eliminates the fear of public speaking
14 March 2025Cambridge scientist launches free AI-enabled virtual reality platform that transforms users into skilled and confident public speakers.