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Cambridge is shaping AI for everyone

07 April 2025

Explore how Cambridge is using AI for better healthcare, smarter public services and new ways of tackling climate change. Meet our community and discover how ai@cam is supporting the development of AI that works for science, citizens and society.  

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ʻAhuʻula (feathered cape) from Hawaii, MAA, 1947.403. Photo ©Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Pacific curators restore Indigenous voices to colonial-era collections

08 Dec 2024

'Fault Lines', a new exhibition at MAA, offers an intimate exploration of Pacific cultures guided by Indigenous curators and contemporary artists...

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Ancient Egypt gallery at The Fitzwilliam Museum. Photo: The Fitzwillliam Museum / David Valinsky Photography

Report highlights University’s under-researched African collections

03 Dec 2024

The University's collections include an estimated 350,000 artefacts, alongside natural history specimens and human/ancestral remains, from Africa...

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Landmark 'pill-on-a-thread' cancer screening trial welcomes first participants

28 Nov 2024

A pivotal clinical trial of a 'pill-on-a-thread' test, which will decide if it becomes a new screening programme for oesophageal cancer, has welcomed...

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Cartographers of the human body: the Human Cell Atlas

20 Nov 2024

The Human Cell Atlas is an ambitious project to map every cell in the human body. Its co-lead, Professor Sarah Teichmann, explains how the initiative...

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Spread the word!

18 Nov 2024

Dr Mark Wormald helps launch Elemental Poetry Cambridge – a new project to get the city writing.

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‘Teen-friendly’ mindfulness therapy aims to help combat depression

18 Nov 2024

Researchers have developed a mindfulness therapy tailored specifically to appeal to teenagers to help them cope with increasing levels of depression...

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Artist's impression of Navaornis, a bird from the age of dinosaurs.

Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence

13 Nov 2024

A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the...

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New PhD funding programme launched

11 Nov 2024

Trinity College and the University of Cambridge’s new £48 million programme enabling fully-funded PhDs has been launched.

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Trump voters believe American values and prosperity are ‘under threat’

11 Nov 2024

Data also suggests that Democrat appeals to unity were popular across the board, but “politicians need to do more to understand why some people feel...

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Obese woman injecting weight-loss drug into abdomen

Are weight loss jabs the solution to the obesity crisis?

30 Oct 2024

Almost two thirds of UK adults are overweight or obese. Are weight loss drugs the solution? Cambridge experts share their opinions.

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Band of the second regiment of Life Guards, leaving Windsor, 1830. Oil on canvas by John Frederick Tayler, 1830. National Army Museum

Military musicians returning from Napoleonic wars invented Britain’s brass bands

30 Oct 2024

Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain’s first brass bands earlier than previously thought, Dr Eamonn O'Keeffe has...

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10 Cambridge spinouts forging a future for our planet

25 Oct 2024

10 companies taking Cambridge ideas out of the lab and into the real world to address the climate emergency.

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