Thinking the Unthinkable at COP29
21 Nov 2024Engineer Dr Shaun Fitzgerald reports from COP29 on his discussions about climate repair as a looming necessity.
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AI algorithm accurately detects heart disease in dogs
29 Oct 2024Researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm to accurately detect heart murmurs in dogs, one of the main indicators of cardiac disease, which affects a large proportion of some smaller breeds such as King Charles Spaniels.
10 Cambridge spinouts forging a future for our planet
25 Oct 202410 companies taking Cambridge ideas out of the lab and into the real world to address the climate emergency.
‘Palaeo-robots’ to help scientists understand how fish started to walk on land
23 Oct 2024The transition from water to land is one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth. Now, a team of roboticists, palaeontologists and biologists is using robots to study how the ancestors of modern land animals transitioned from swimming to walking, about 390 million years ago.
Buying time: can science save the Great Barrier Reef?
16 Oct 2024If we don’t stop global temperatures – both on land and at sea – from rising, the Great Barrier Reef could become a coral graveyard. A team of scientists has decided to do something about it.
How road haulage is navigating the route to net zero
11 Oct 2024Responsible for 8% of world carbon emissions, can trucking clean up its act?
Cambridge joins forces with ARIA to fast-track radical new technologies to revolutionise brain health
09 Oct 2024A team from across the Cambridge life sciences, technology and business worlds has announced a multi-million-pound, three-year collaboration with the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), the UK government’s new research funding agency.
G7 representatives meet in Cambridge to discuss semiconductors
26 Sep 2024Representatives from the G7 have met in Cambridge to discuss the main priorities for the future development of semiconductors and their impact on the global economy.
Flight path to net zero
22 Sep 2024Global aviation could be on a flight path to net zero if industry and governments reach just four goals by 2030, according to a new report from the University of Cambridge.
Building a more sustainable world
19 Sep 2024This longstanding partnership between Cambridge, Arup and the Ove Arup Foundation has made our world safer and more sustainable and changed the way professionals are taught.
