War in Lebanon has turned a decade of education crisis into a catastrophe - report
05 Dec 2024Israel-Hezbollah conflict has deepened an education crisis in which children have lost up to 60% of schooling in 6 years, study shows.
Gender inequality ingrained in global climate negotiations, say researchers
11 Nov 2024Climate governance is dominated by men, yet the health impacts of the climate crisis often affect women, girls, and gender-diverse people disproportionately, argue researchers ahead of the upcoming 29th United Nations Climate Summit (COP29) in Azerbaijan.
New study aims to catch cancer earlier than ever before
12 Sep 2024A new study aims, for the first time, to pinpoint the very moment the immune system recognises a tumour to try to stop the disease earlier than previously possible.
Video analysis of Iceland 2010 eruption could improve volcanic ash forecasts for aviation safety
13 Jun 2024Video footage of Iceland’s 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption is providing researchers from the University of Cambridge with rare, up-close observations of volcanic ash clouds — information that could help better forecast how far explosive eruptions disperse their hazardous ash particles.
Drought encouraged Attila’s Huns to attack the Roman empire, tree rings suggest
15 Dec 2022Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe drought in the Danube frontier provinces of the Roman empire, a new study argues.
New approach to ‘cosmic magnet’ manufacturing could reduce reliance on rare earths in low-carbon technologies
25 Oct 2022Researchers have discovered a potential new method for making the high-performance magnets used in wind turbines and electric cars without the need for rare earth elements, which are almost exclusively sourced in China.
Co-offenders likely to violently turn on one another, UK crime gang study shows
12 Apr 2022Researchers use over a decade of data from Thames Valley Police to reveal 'mechanisms' that generate and sustain violence within networks of organised crime.
Opinion: The challenges faced by doctors and nurses in conflict zones
15 Mar 2022Professor Mark de Rond from Cambridge Judge Business School outlines some of the unique pressures faced by doctors and nurses in Ukraine, in this piece originally published in The Conversation.
Russia-Ukraine ‘off-ramp’: potential plan drafted by Cambridge peace negotiator
14 Mar 2022An international law expert outlines terms for a possible agreement on Ukraine, including proposals for the Donbas and Crimea regions, and a 'Cooperative European Security Architecture'.
Justinianic Plague was nothing like flu and may have hit England before Constantinople
22 Nov 2021‘Plague sceptics’ are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that bubonic plague had in the 6th–8th centuries CE, argues a new study based on ancient texts and recent genetic discoveries. The same study suggests that bubonic plague may have reached England before its first recorded case in the Mediterranean via a currently unknown route, possibly involving the Baltic and Scandinavia.
