Scientists develop model to assess COVID-19 infection risk in offices and schools
06 October 2021As more UK workers and students return to offices and schools, a new model has been developed to predict the risk of airborne COVID-19 infection...
Concentrate farming to leave room for species and carbon
06 October 2021Farming should be as high-yield as possible so it can be limited to relatively small areas, allowing much more land to be left as natural...
Film: the race to sequence COVID-19
04 October 2021The variant hunters are helping us to understand how and why the COVID-19 virus is spreading, allowing us to fight back against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Encourage wealthy and well-connected to use their influence to tackle climate change
30 September 2021A paper published today in the journal Nature Energy identifies five ways that people of high socioeconomic status have a disproportionate impact on global...
Rate of mental disorders among children remained stable in 2021 after previous rise
30 September 2021One in six children in England had a probable mental disorder in 2021 – a similar rate to 2020 but an increase from one in...
Track and trace in Sierra Leone
30 September 2021Professor Ian Goodfellow played a crucial role in helping to bring the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone to a close in 2014. His team's work helped inform...
Academy of Social Sciences confers Fellowships on three Cambridge academics
30 September 2021The Academy of Social Sciences has conferred Fellowships on Professor Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Professor Elisabete A Silva and Professor Bhaskar Vira, in recognition of their contribution...
Researchers identify and clear efficiency hurdle for organic solar cells
29 September 2021Researchers have identified a key mechanism responsible for the lower efficiencies of organic solar cells and shown a way that this hurdle might be overcome.
Study suggests R rate for tracking pandemic should be dropped in favour of ‘nowcasts’
29 September 2021When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in 2020, the R rate became well-known shorthand for the reproduction of the disease. Yet a new study suggests it’s...
‘Back to basics’ approach helps unravel new phase of matter
27 September 2021A new phase of matter, thought to be understandable only using quantum physics, can be studied with far simpler classical methods.