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Our unprecedented ability to collect, store and analyse data is opening up new frontiers in science and the humanities.

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Mining for Corruption

15 Jun 2015

Researchers have developed a new technique that trawls the enormous amounts of public procurement data now available across the EU to highlight...

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DNA/protein function finder from the Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute, emblebi and YourGenome

The Big Dating Game

09 Jun 2015

When is a rare disease not a rare disease? The answer: when big data gets involved. An ambitious new research project aims to show patients that they...

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Let’s get statted

03 Jun 2015

With more information than ever at our fingertips, statisticians are vital to innumerable fields and industries. Welcome to the world of the datarati...

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The Twingl mind

Big Data – getting to the heart of the Information Revolution

01 Jun 2015

Big data has captured the world’s attention, with talk of a new Industrial Revolution based on information, and of data being one of the 21st century...

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The Rotherhithe Picture Research Library

New gold standard established for open and reproducible research

04 May 2015

Cambridge computer scientists have established a new gold standard for open research, in order to make scientific results more robust and reliable...

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3D dipole integration panoramic poster

Large Hadron Collider restarts after two years

07 Apr 2015

After two years of intense maintenance and consolidation, and several months of preparation for restart, the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful...

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 Scotland ~ Day 2

Study finds GB’s most extroverted, agreeable and emotionally stable regions

25 Mar 2015

A survey of almost 400,000 British residents has highlighted significant differences in personalities between regions. Amongst its findings, it shows...

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Breast Cancer Public Art

Fifteen new breast cancer genetic risk ‘hot-spots’ revealed

09 Mar 2015

Scientists have discovered 15 previously unknown genetic ‘hot-spots’ that can increase a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, according to...

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The super-resolution revolution

27 Feb 2015

Cambridge scientists are part of a resolution revolution. Building powerful instruments that shatter the physical limits of optical microscopy, they...

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Pulse

Million man study examines long-term effects of blocking inflammation

26 Feb 2015

Inflammation – the body’s response to damaging stimuli – may have a protective effect against cardiovascular disease, according to a study published...

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Large Hadron Collider

Firing up the proton smasher

16 Feb 2015

The Large Hadron Collider is being brought back to life, ready for Run II of the “world’s greatest physics experiment”. Cambridge physicists are...

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Airborne mapping of the tree canopy in a tropical West African forest

If you go down to the woods today…

10 Feb 2015

Recent advances in medical imaging are being applied to airborne remote sensing of vegetation, enabling conservation scientists to see the wood and...

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