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Power plant

Global learning is needed to save carbon capture and storage from being abandoned

11 Jan 2016

Governments should not be abandoning carbon capture and storage, argues a Cambridge researcher, as it is the only realistic way of dramatically...

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Pigs eating swill at Stepney City Farm

Feeding food waste to pigs could save vast swathes of threatened forest and savannah

10 Dec 2015

New research suggests that feeding our food waste, or swill, to pigs (currently banned under EU law) could save 1.8 million hectares of global...

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Let girls learn in conflict settings

09 Dec 2015

Unique threats to girls displaced by conflict prompt exceptional initiative.

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121.365 Innovation

Given in evidence

17 Nov 2015

How do we get better at taking the research knowledge from our science and engineering base and turning it into technologies, industries and economic...

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Exploiting the Government's education data could help to bridge the UK skills gap

30 Sep 2015

Analysing graduate earnings using anonymous administrative data can show how earnings vary for graduates and indicate which skills are in short...

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Bombus pascuorum

The Life and Death of the Queen Bumblebee

23 Sep 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, Q is for...

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Image from #BlackLivesMatter protest in Berkeley

Police use of force: White House told US must learn from UK

24 Feb 2015

Cambridge criminologist tells White House task force that translating UK models of policing to US is the best hope in a generation for tackling...

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Office Space

Graduates who went to private schools earn more than graduates who did not, finds study

31 Oct 2014

New study shows that - even after controlling for subject, degree class, alma mater and occupation - graduates who attended private schools earn on...

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Thought

Project seeks nation’s most memorised poems to investigate power of poetry ‘by heart’

02 Oct 2014

By aiming to discover the UK’s most memorised poems, a new research project – backed by a former Poet Laureate – will explore the poems that live in...

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Coal mine in Dhanbad, India. The biodiversity loss caused by the Indian mining industry has been widely criticised and is an example of the type of issue around which scientists now claim religious leaders could mobilise public action.

Science turns to religion for “mass mobilisation” on environmental change

19 Sep 2014

Ahead of the UN summit on climate change, two leading scholars in the field make a watershed appeal to religious leaders for help in mobilising...

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Field and sky

Plant scientists call for rethink of GM crop regulation

19 Mar 2014

Leading plant scientists have called for major changes to the way GM crops are licensed.

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Housing estate

Home from home: minor moves make major differences

26 Feb 2014

Most of the moves we make are within 5 km of our previous addresses, yet these short migrations are highly significant within individual lives. New...

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