The first 'climate smart' sovereign credit ratings
18 March 2021Cambridge economists add climate science to Standard & Poor’s global credit formula and find that 63 nations face downgrades by 2030 unless action is taken to reduce emissions.
Professor Mauro F Guillén announced as next Director of Cambridge Judge Business School
16 March 2021Professor Mauro F Guillén, a prominent expert, award-winning scholar and teacher at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed the next Director of Cambridge Judge Business School.
Use of AI to fight COVID-19 risks harming 'disadvantaged groups', experts warn
16 March 2021Rapid deployment of artificial intelligence and machine learning to tackle coronavirus must still go through ethical checks and balances, or we risk harming already disadvantaged communities in the rush to defeat the disease.
Video-led feedback programme reduces behaviour problems in children as young as 12 months
16 March 2021A home-based parenting programme to prevent childhood behaviour problems, which very unusually focuses on children when they are still toddlers, has proven highly successful during its first public health trial.
Is Social Media Changing Your Life?
16 March 2021Social media: lifeline, or source of mental health problems? With its effects still not fully understood, Cambridge researchers discuss the best approach to take.
Machine learning models for diagnosing COVID-19 are not yet suitable for clinical use
15 March 2021Systematic review finds that machine learning models for detecting and diagnosing COVID-19 from medical images have major flaws and biases, making them unsuitable for use in patients. However, researchers have suggested ways to remedy the problem.
European summer droughts since 2015 unprecedented in past two millennia
15 March 2021Recent summer droughts in Europe are far more severe than anything in the past 2,100 years, according to a new study.
Traces of Earth’s early magma ocean identified in Greenland rocks
12 March 2021New research led by the University of Cambridge has found rare evidence – preserved in the chemistry of ancient rocks from Greenland - which tells of a time when Earth was almost entirely molten.
Humans who search
12 March 2021Stefanie Reichelt had long felt there was a disconnect between the public’s perception of scientists and reality. Armed with only a camera and a chair, she set out to find the human side of science.
Hubble sees new atmosphere forming on a rocky exoplanet
11 March 2021For the first time, scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence of volcanic activity reforming the atmosphere on a rocky planet around a distant star. The planet, GJ 1132 b, has a similar density, size, and age to Earth.
