Research highlights growing market in AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to bypass human bias to remove discrimination from hiring. | Continue reading
A 1-minute video released by the University of Cambridge sets the record straight on a much misunderstood concept – how wings lift. | Continue reading
An international team of researchers has revealed new evidence for the possible existence of liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars. | Continue reading
Cambridge scientists have discovered that cancer cells ‘hijack’ a process used by healthy cells to spread around the body, completely changing current ways of | Continue reading
Water can be liquid, gas or ice, right? Think again. | Continue reading
Using new ‘pattern recognition algorithm,’ latest research highlights how birds are ‘fighting back’ against the parasitic Common Cuckoo in what scientists | Continue reading
Experts call for a new ‘Climate Endgame’ research agenda, and say far too little work has gone into understanding the mechanisms by which rising temperatures might pose a catastrophic risk to society and humanity. | Continue reading
One of the most distant known galaxies, observed in the very earliest years of the Universe, appears to be rotating at less than a quarter of the speed of the | Continue reading
Professor Stephen J Toope, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, has expressed fears that a continued stand-off between the UK and EU will lead to a | Continue reading
Leaders in fields from chemistry to cancer research are among the Cambridge academics recognised today. | Continue reading
Researchers have used a widespread species of blue-green algae to power a microprocessor continuously for a year - and counting - using nothing but ambient | Continue reading
Researchers have used a combination of automated text analysis and the ‘robot scientist’ Eve to semi-automate the process of reproducing research results. The | Continue reading
Governments are failing to understand the human-driven catastrophic risks that threaten global security, prosperity and potential, and could in the worst case | Continue reading
Mapping the rapid growth and slow decline of the human brain over our lifetime | Continue reading
Charles Darwin’s iconic Tree of Life notebooks anonymously left in a pink gift bag, 15 months after launch of a worldwide appeal to find them | Continue reading
Humans are usually pretty good at recognising when they get things wrong, but artificial intelligence systems are not. According to a new study, AI generally | Continue reading
Researchers have developed a new method to display highly realistic holographic images using ‘holobricks’ that can be stacked together to generate large-scale | Continue reading
Researchers have made tiny ‘skyscrapers’ for communities of bacteria, helping them to generate electricity from just sunlight and water. | Continue reading
The most successful computer ever to come out of the UK celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. | Continue reading
One in three young people say their mental health and wellbeing improved during COVID-19 lockdown measures, with potential contributing factors including | Continue reading
Researchers have developed a 46-inch woven display with smart sensors, energy harvesting and storage integrated directly into the fabric. | Continue reading
A new study suggests that music could play a greater role in overcoming social division | Continue reading
Rediscovered notebook adds new depth to our understanding of Isaac Newton's relationship with theology | Continue reading
Massive study of almost two million US residents reveals rising housing costs may drive increases in “openness” of character among both long-term and new | Continue reading
By trapping light into tiny crevices of gold, researchers have coaxed molecules to convert invisible infrared into visible light, creating new low-cost | Continue reading
The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century – decades earlier than records suggest – due to warmer water flowing into the delicate polar ecosystem from the Atlantic Ocean. | Continue reading
Results announced by the LHCb experiment at CERN have revealed further hints for phenomena that cannot be explained by our current theory of fundamental | Continue reading
Researchers have developed a jelly-like material that can withstand the equivalent of an elephant standing on it, and completely recover to its original shape, | Continue reading
Researchers have visualised, for the first time, why perovskites – materials which could replace silicon in next-generation solar cells - are seemingly so | Continue reading
For the first time, researchers have used human data to quantify the speed of different processes that lead to Alzheimer’s disease and found that it develops | Continue reading
Algae is spreading across coastal Antarctica & turning the snow green | Continue reading
Dark energy, the mysterious force that causes the universe to accelerate, may have been responsible for unexpected results from the XENON1T experiment, deep | Continue reading
Findings suggest infection control measures against variants will need to continue in the post-vaccination era. | Continue reading
The rise and fall of Earth’s land surface over the last three million years shaped the evolution of birds and mammals, a new study has found, with new species | Continue reading
Researchers call for a shift in focus away from risks of “super-volcanic” eruptions and towards likelier scenarios of smaller eruptions in key global “pinch | Continue reading
A team of engineers and clinicians has developed an ultra-thin, inflatable device that can be used to treat the most severe forms of pain without the need for invasive surgery. | Continue reading
Dr Olivia Remes has spent her career researching mental health and wellbeing. In her new book, The Instant Mood Fix, she brings together the research in this field in a bid to help others – writing it has been a very personal quest. | Continue reading
Study of almost 3 million Facebook and Twitter posts from US media and politicians shows divisive posts dunking on opponents drives engagement on social media. | Continue reading
Cosmic dawn, when stars formed for the first time, occurred 250 million to 350 million years after the beginning of the universe, according to a new study led | Continue reading
Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products. | Continue reading
Graphene can be used for ultra-high density hard disk drives (HDD), with up to a tenfold jump compared to current technologies, researchers at the Cambridge | Continue reading
The so-called ‘bullshit jobs theory’ – which argues that a large and rapidly increasing number of workers are undertaking jobs that they themselves recognise | Continue reading
The arrival of Stephen Hawking's archive at Cambridge University Library means that three of the most important scientific archives of all time – those of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Hawking – are now housed under one roof. | Continue reading
Researchers have developed the first LiDAR-based augmented reality head-up display for use in vehicles. Tests on a prototype version of the technology suggest that it could improve road safety by ‘seeing through’ objects to alert of potential hazards without distracting the drive … | Continue reading
The vital role of ventilation in the spread of COVID-19 has been quantified by researchers, who have found that in poorly-ventilated spaces, the virus can | Continue reading
Using satellite data to ‘see in the dark’, researchers have shown for the first time that lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet drain during winter, a finding with | Continue reading
For the first time, scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence of volcanic activity reforming the atmosphere on a rocky planet | Continue reading