Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly veggie but peasants treated them to huge BBQs
21 April 2022Very few people in England ate large amounts of meat before the Vikings settled, and there is no evidence that elites ate more meat than...
Gates Cambridge: Class of 2022
21 April 2022Meet some of this year’s 79 new scholars from 30 countries – including Sanjiv Ranchod from South Africa who will be starting a PhD in Computer...
'Threatening' faces and beefy bodies do not bias criminal suspect identification, study finds
20 April 2022Research shows that there is no bias toward selecting people with muscular bodies or facial characteristics perceived as threatening when identifying criminal suspects in line-ups.
Women are ‘running with leaded shoes’ when promoted at work, says study
19 April 2022Promotion at work has greater emotional benefit for men than women, says a new study on gender and workplace emotion.
Cambridge spin-out aiming to make it easier to find and apply regulations
14 April 2022RegGenome, a commercial spin-out from the University of Cambridge, has announced the completion of a $6 million seed funding round.
The gift of identity
13 April 2022Technology that recognises people’s unique iris patterns is giving a means of identification to millions of individuals across the globe.
Women in England had predominantly negative experiences of childbirth during pandemic in 2020, survey finds
12 April 202247% of parents in a national survey reported negative experiences of giving birth during the pandemic in 2020, with uncertainties about rapidly changing restrictions and...
Co-offenders likely to violently turn on one another, UK crime gang study shows
12 April 2022Researchers use over a decade of data from Thames Valley Police to reveal 'mechanisms' that generate and sustain violence within networks of organised crime.
Scientists crack egg forging evolutionary puzzle
12 April 2022A genetic study of Zambian cuckoo finches has solved one of nature’s biggest criminal cases, an egg forgery scandal two million years in the making. Its...
Trainee teachers made sharper assessments about learning difficulties after receiving feedback from AI
11 April 2022A trial in which trainee teachers who were being taught to identify pupils with potential learning difficulties had their work ‘marked’ by artificial intelligence has...