Earth’s earliest sea creatures drove evolution by stirring the water
17 May 20243D reconstructions suggest that simple marine animals living over 560 million years ago drove the emergence of more complex life by mixing the seawater around...
Cambridge at Hay 2024
17 May 2024Several Cambridge academics will be speaking at the prestigious Hay literary festival in Wales at the end of May.
Webb detects most distant black hole merger to date
16 May 2024An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has used the James Webb Space Telescope to find evidence for an ongoing merger...
John Milton's notes identified in an influential book he once owned
15 May 2024John Milton’s handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles, a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost poet. The discovery,...
2023 was the hottest summer in two thousand years
14 May 2024Researchers have found that 2023 was the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere in the past two thousand years, almost four degrees warmer than the...
Over 20,000 people join search for new dementia treatments
14 May 2024More than 20,000 volunteers have been recruited to a resource aimed at speeding up the development of much-needed dementia drugs. The cohort will enable scientists...
Birth by C-section more than doubles odds of measles vaccine failure
13 May 2024Researchers say it is vital that children born by caesarean section receive two doses of the measles vaccine for robust protection against the disease.
Call for safeguards to prevent unwanted ‘hauntings’ by AI chatbots of dead loved ones
09 May 2024Cambridge researchers lay out the need for design safety protocols that prevent the emerging “digital afterlife industry” causing social and psychological harm.
Baby born deaf can hear after breakthrough gene therapy
09 May 2024A baby girl born deaf can hear unaided for the first time, after receiving gene therapy when she was 11 months old at Addenbrooke’s Hospital...
‘Wraparound’ implants represent new approach to treating spinal cord injuries
08 May 2024A tiny, flexible electronic device that wraps around the spinal cord could represent a new approach to the treatment of spinal injuries, which can cause...