Harmful effects of digital tech – the science ‘needs fixing’, experts argue
10 Apr 2025From social media to AI, online technologies are changing too fast for the scientific infrastructure used to gauge its public health harms, say two...
Record-breaking Cambridge Festival 2025 ends on a high, uniting 45,000 visitors in celebration of ideas, discovery and dialogue
10 Apr 2025The fifth Cambridge Festival has drawn to a triumphant close, having welcomed a record-breaking 45,000 visitors across 385 events during 17 inspiring...
Handheld device could transform heart disease screening
08 Apr 2025Researchers have developed a handheld device that could potentially replace stethoscopes as a tool for detecting certain types of heart disease.
Researchers demonstrate the UK’s first long-distance ultra-secure communication over a quantum network
08 Apr 2025Researchers have successfully demonstrated the UK’s first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network...
Cambridge is shaping AI for everyone
07 Apr 2025Explore how Cambridge is using AI for better healthcare, smarter public services and new ways of tackling climate change. Meet our community and...
Opinion: AI can transform health and medicine
07 Apr 2025AI has the potential to transform health and medicine. It won't be straightforward, but if we get it right, the benefits could be enormous. Andres...
AI can be good for our health and wellbeing
07 Apr 2025Cambridge researchers are looking at ways that AI can transform everything from drug discovery to Alzheimer's diagnoses to GP consultations.
Hundreds of A-level students see grades rise and secure places at top universities following Cambridge's STEM SMART initiative
07 Apr 2025UCAS evaluation shows the most engaged sixth formers saw their results jump by a grade on average, were up to four times as successful in achieving...
Turbocharging the race to protect nature and climate with AI
06 Apr 2025Rebalancing the planet must happen faster. Cambridge researchers are using AI to help.
Opinion: AI can help us heal the planet
04 Apr 2025AI can do in seconds what might take a team of experts a year. This is why we must harness it to reverse the damage we’ve done to the planet. Anil...
Opinion: We must balance the risks and benefits of AI
04 Apr 2025AI will only be as good – or as bad – as the information fed into it, so we need to fix any bias that perpetuates inequality and marginalisation...
Opinion: AI belongs in classrooms
04 Apr 2025AI in education has transformative potential for students, teachers and schools but only if we harness it in the right way – by keeping people at the...