Professor Joya Chatterji awarded Wolfson History Prize 2024
03 December 2024Chatterji wins for Shadows at Noon, her genre-defying history of South Asia during the twentieth century.
Report highlights University’s under-researched African collections
03 December 2024The University's collections include an estimated 350,000 artefacts, alongside natural history specimens and human/ancestral remains, from Africa, according to a new report aiming to promote...
Researchers deal a blow to theory that Venus once had liquid water on its surface
02 December 2024A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbour was once much more...
New datasets will train AI models to think like scientists
02 December 2024What can exploding stars teach us about how blood flows through an artery? Or swimming bacteria about how the ocean’s layers mix? A collaboration of...
Landmark 'pill-on-a-thread' cancer screening trial welcomes first participants
28 November 2024A pivotal clinical trial of a 'pill-on-a-thread' test, which will decide if it becomes a new screening programme for oesophageal cancer, has welcomed its first...
Scientists warn of ‘invisible threat’ of microplastics as global treaty nears completion
26 November 2024As the UN meets this week to finalise the Global Plastics Treaty, researchers warn that the agreement could fail to address one of the biggest...
Wildlife monitoring technologies used to intimidate and spy on women, study finds
25 November 2024Camera traps and drones deployed by government authorities to monitor a forest in India are infringing on the privacy and rights of local women.
Award-winning broadcaster Hannah Fry joins Cambridge as Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics
22 November 2024Professor Hannah Fry, mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning science presenter and host of popular podcasts and television shows, will join the University of Cambridge as the...
Cartographers of the human body: the Human Cell Atlas
20 November 2024The Human Cell Atlas is an ambitious project to map every cell in the human body. Its co-lead, Professor Sarah Teichmann, explains how the initiative...
Northerners, Scots and Irish excel at detecting fake accents to guard against outsiders, study suggests
20 November 2024People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and Essex, new...