A team of researchers studying the effectiveness of different types of face masks has found that in order to provide the best protection against COVID-19, the | Continue reading
Teaching children in a way that encourages them to empathise with others measurably improves their creativity, and could potentially lead to several other | Continue reading
One of the first academic studies to examine the working lives of disabled teachers in England has called for ‘urgent change’ after finding evidence of | Continue reading
Genes that are thought to play a role in how the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects our cells have been found to be active in embryos as early as during the second week | Continue reading
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered a fossil of the earliest starfish-like animal, which helps us understand the origins of the | Continue reading
Cambridge researcher confirms reproducibility of high-profile Imperial College coronavirus computational model. | Continue reading
Injecting a gene therapy vector into one eye of someone suffering from LHON, the most common cause of mitochondrial blindness, significantly improves vision in | Continue reading
Arm and Cambridge University are working together to make our phones and computers more secure, more efficient and ready for the digital revolution. | Continue reading
Researchers at the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre have revealed what they’ve learned from analysing hundreds of thousands of illicit trades that took place in an | Continue reading
‘Mini-lungs’ grown from tissue donated to Cambridge hospitals have provided a team of scientists from South Korea and the UK with important insights into how | Continue reading
A short online game in which players are recruited as a “Chief Disinformation Officer” and use tactics such as trolling to sabotage elections in a peaceful | Continue reading
Specially-adapted drones, developed by an international team involving scientists from the University of Cambridge, are transforming how we forecast eruptions | Continue reading
Scientists have used genome sequencing to reveal the extent to which a drug-resistant gastrointestinal bacterium can spread within a hospital, highlighting the | Continue reading
Virtual reality software which allows researchers to ‘walk’ inside and analyse individual cells could be used to understand fundamental problems in biology and | Continue reading
Researchers have developed a new approach to printed electronics which allows ultra-low power electronic devices that could recharge from ambient light or | Continue reading
Go Viral! is a new game developed in partnership between the University of Cambridge and the UK Government. Based on ‘inoculation theory’, it simulates an environment for users to play the role of fake news producer, so they can understand how COVID-19 misinformation circulates o … | Continue reading
The University of Cambridge has welcomed another record number of UK based black undergraduates this year. | Continue reading
From capturing your breath to guiding biological cell movements, 3D printing of tiny, transparent conducting fibres could be used to make devices which can | Continue reading
The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest global healthcare crisis of our generation, presenting enormous challenges to medical research, including clinical | Continue reading
The first complete dinosaur skeleton ever identified has finally been studied in detail and found its place in the dinosaur family tree, completing a project that began more than a century and a half ago. | Continue reading
Researchers have identified the optimal dish positions to help “nudge” diners into picking more planet-friendly meals in cafeterias. | Continue reading
Sleep paralysis – a condition thought to explain a number of mysterious experiences including alleged cases of alien abduction and demonic night-time visits – | Continue reading
Apathy offers an important early warning sign of dementia in individuals with cerebrovascular disease, but depression does not, research led by the | Continue reading
Researchers at Cambridge, Imperial and Singapore have developed a method to print ultrathin coatings on next-generation solar cells, allowing them to work in | Continue reading
Explore the ancient Greek city of Mycenae in a newly released digital archive. | Continue reading
Even basic homemade masks can significantly reduce transmission if enough people wear them when in public, according to latest modelling. Researchers call for | Continue reading
‘First-generation learners’ – a substantial number of pupils around the world who represent the first generation in their families to receive an education – are also significantly more likely to leave school without basic literacy or numeracy skills, a study suggests. | Continue reading
Men and women aged 40–79 are at significantly lower (25–27%) risk of long or frequent hospital admissions if they do some form of physical activity, a new study suggests. | Continue reading
Researchers have designed bionic 3D-printed corals that could help energy production and coral reef research. | Continue reading
Study charts the “incipient supernova” of COVID-19 through genetic mutations as it spread from China and Asia to Australia, Europe and North America. Researchers say their methods could be used to help identify undocumented infection sources. | Continue reading
A new app, which will be used to collect data to develop machine learning algorithms that could automatically detect whether a person is suffering from COVID-19 based on the sound of their voice, their breathing and coughing, has been launched by researchers at the University of … | Continue reading
How fast could a new flu epidemic spread? The results of the UK’s largest citizen science project of its kind ever attempted, carried out by thousands of volunteers, predict that 43 million people in the UK could be infected in an influenza pandemic, and with up to 886,000 of tho … | Continue reading
Different learning difficulties do not correspond to specific regions of the brain, as previously thought, say researchers at the University of Cambridge. Instead poor connectivity between ‘hubs’ within the brain is much more strongly related to children’s difficulties. | Continue reading
Cuttlefish can rapidly learn from experience and adapt their eating behaviour accordingly, a new study has shown. | Continue reading
New brain networks come ‘online’ during adolescence, allowing teenagers to develop more complex adult social skills, but potentially putting them at increased risk of mental illness, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) … | Continue reading
The famous, but bizarre, ‘rubber hand illusion’ could help people who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder overcome their condition without the often unbearable stress of exposure therapy, suggests new research. | Continue reading
Cambridge University Library has opened a vast, new £17m storage facility on the outskirts of Ely – capable of holding 4 million books, manuscripts and other objects that have been deemed low-use by the University Library and other University libraries and collections. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is being developed that will allow advisory 'quarantining' of hate speech in a manner akin to malware filters – offering users a way to control exposure to 'hateful content' without resorting to censorship. | Continue reading
People who live in areas of higher than average deprivation are more likely to be admitted to hospital and to spend longer in hospital, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. The difference was particularly pronounced among manual workers and those with lower … | Continue reading
An international group of scientists, including from the University of Cambridge, have developed a graphene composite that can ‘eat’ common atmospheric pollutants, and could be used as a coating on pavements or buildings. | Continue reading
A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an ‘artificial leaf’ that uses only sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and which could eventually be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to petrol. | Continue reading
A new journal from Cambridge University Press will take a radical new approach to both publishing and peer reviewing research. | Continue reading
Scientists have designed an ultra-miniaturised device that could image single cells without the need for a microscope or make chemical fingerprint analysis possible from within a smartphone camera. | Continue reading
Researchers have designed a machine learning algorithm that predicts the outcome of chemical reactions with much higher accuracy than trained chemists and suggests ways to make complex molecules, removing a significant hurdle in drug discovery. | Continue reading
New research reveals how increasing brain stiffness as we age causes brain stem cell dysfunction, and demonstrates new ways to reverse older stem cells to a younger, healthier state. | Continue reading
Researchers have developed artificial ‘chameleon skin’ that changes colour when exposed to light and could be used in applications such as active camouflage and large-scale dynamic displays. | Continue reading
A team at the University of Cambridge has shown how, in osteoarthritis patients, the viscous lubricant that ordinarily allows our joints to move smoothly triggers a pain response from nerve cells similar to that caused by chilli peppers. | Continue reading