To save nature, AI needs our help
07 May 2025Researchers at Cambridge are leading conversations to make sure we embrace AI with eyes wide open.
Pondering artistic beauty encourages ‘big picture’ thinking
07 May 2025Psychological experiment suggests actively considering the beauty of art increases abstract thinking and “transformative” emotion – helping us escape the “mental trappings” of day-to-day living.
Eighty years since Victory in Europe Day
07 May 2025The University of Cambridge celebrates and remembers.
Adolescents with mental health conditions use social media differently than their peers, study suggests
05 May 2025One of the first studies in this area to use clinical-level diagnoses reveals a range of differences between young people with and without mental health conditions when it comes to social media – from changes in mood to time spent on sites.
Gates Cambridge: class of 2025
30 April 202595 future leaders have been selected as Gates Cambridge Scholars in the scholarship's 25th anniversary year.
It takes parents a year to ‘tune in’ to their child’s feelings about starting school
30 April 2025Findings from a major Cambridge-led study inspired psychologists to co-produce a picture book that helps parents develop a deeper understanding of how their child is coping with the first year of school.
Adolescents who sleep longer perform better at cognitive tasks
22 April 2025Adolescents who sleep for longer – and from an earlier bedtime – than their peers tend to have improved brain function and perform better at cognitive tests, researchers from the UK and China have shown.
Charles Darwin Archive recognised by UNESCO
22 April 2025Documentary heritage relating to the life and work of Charles Darwin has been recognised on the prestigious UNESCO International Memory of the World Register, highlighting its critical importance to global science and the necessity of its long-term preservation and accessibility.
Throwing a ‘spanner in the works’ of our cells’ machinery could help fight cancer, fatty liver disease… and hair loss
18 April 2025Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the ‘powerhouses’ of our cells, allows us to make the fuel we need from sugars, a process vital to all life on Earth.
Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals
17 April 2025Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’, a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons took advantage of famine and societal breakdown caused by an extreme period of drought to inflict crushing blows on weakened Roman defences in 367 CE. While Rome eventually restored order, some historians argue that the province never fully recovered.
