Wildlife monitoring technologies used to intimidate and spy on women, study finds
25 November 2024Camera traps and drones deployed by government authorities to monitor a forest in India are infringing on the privacy and rights of local women.
Award-winning broadcaster Hannah Fry joins Cambridge as Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics
22 November 2024Professor Hannah Fry, mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning science presenter and host of popular podcasts and television shows, will join the University of Cambridge as the first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics on 1 January.
Thinking the Unthinkable at COP29
21 November 2024Engineer Dr Shaun Fitzgerald reports from COP29 on his discussions about climate repair as a looming necessity.
ActNowFilm premieres at COP29
21 November 2024Youth leaders from around the planet celebrated the COP29 premiere of a new film demanding global negotiators give them a say in their own future.
Cartographers of the human body: the Human Cell Atlas
20 November 2024The 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 is already changing our understanding of our bodies.
Arm donates £3.5 million for Cambridge PhD students to study computer architecture and semiconductor design
20 November 2024Arm is donating £3.5 million to enable 15 PhD students over the next five years to study at CASCADE, the University's new Computer Architecture and Semiconductor Design Centre.
‘Manifest’ is Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year
20 November 2024The controversial global trend of manifesting has driven Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2024.
Northerners, Scots and Irish excel at detecting fake accents to guard against outsiders, study suggests
20 November 2024People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and Essex, new research has found.
A peek inside the box that could help solve a quantum mystery
19 November 2024An elusive particle that first formed in the hot, dense early universe has puzzled physicists for decades. Following its discovery in 2003, scientists began observing a slew of other strange objects tied to the millionths of a second after the Big Bang.
Spread the word!
18 November 2024Dr Mark Wormald helps launch Elemental Poetry Cambridge – a new project to get the city writing.
