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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Sam Nallaperuma-Herzberg

11 Mar 2025

Dr Sam Nallaperuma-Herzberg is a Senior Research Associate at Cambridge University’s Department of Computer Science and Technology, and a Fellow in...

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Illustration and photograph of 'smart pyjamas'

Scientists develop ‘smart pyjamas’ to monitor sleep disorders

18 Feb 2025

Researchers have developed comfortable, washable ‘smart pyjamas’ that can monitor sleep disorders such as sleep apnoea at home, without the need for...

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The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli, 1781

Meditation-relaxation therapy may offer escape from the terror of sleep paralysis

12 Aug 2020

Sleep paralysis – a condition thought to explain a number of mysterious experiences including alleged cases of alien abduction and demonic night-time...

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Sleeping lady

Sleeping over eight hours a day associated with greater risk of stroke

25 Feb 2015

People who sleep for more than eight hours a day have an increased risk of stroke, according to a study by the University of Cambridge – and this...

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Meerkat

Tradition explains why some meerkats are late risers

07 Jul 2010

Just as afternoon tea is traditional in England but not in France, different groups of meerkats have different ways of doing things, Cambridge...

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