Cambridge Festival of Ideas launches today
15 Oct 2018The Cambridge Festival of Ideas begins today with over 200 talks, discussions, exhibitions and performances taking place over the next two weeks.
Many cases of dementia may arise from non-inherited DNA ‘spelling mistakes’
15 Oct 2018Only a small proportion of cases of dementia are thought to be inherited – the cause of the vast majority is unknown. Now, in a study published today in the journal Nature Communications, a team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Cambridge believe they may have found an explanation: spontaneous errors in our DNA that arise as cells divide and replicate.
Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets form
15 Oct 2018Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first time that so many massive planets have been detected in such a young system. The system has also set a new record for the most extreme range of orbits yet observed: the outermost planet is more than a thousand times further from the star than the innermost one, which raises interesting questions about how such a system might have formed.
Graphene may exceed bandwidth demands of future telecommunications
12 Oct 2018Researchers from the Cambridge Graphene Centre, together with industrial and academic collaborators within the European Graphene Flagship project, showed that integrated graphene-based photonic devices offer a solution for the next generation of optical communications.
New legal tool aims to increase openness, sharing and innovation in global biotechnology
11 Oct 2018A new easy-to-use legal tool that enables exchange of biological material between research institutes and companies launches today.
Mental health disorders: risks and resilience in adolescence
10 Oct 2018On World Mental Health Day we look at how understanding the wiring and rewiring of the adolescent brain is helping scientists pinpoint why young people are especially vulnerable to mental health problems – and why some are resilient.
Black researchers shaping the future
10 Oct 2018As the UK marks Black History Month, researchers from across the University talk about their route to Cambridge, their inspiration and their motivation.
Location, location, location: researchers develop model to predict retail failure
09 Oct 2018Researchers have used a combination of location and transport data to predict the likelihood that a given retail business will succeed or fail.
Austerity cuts ‘twice as deep’ in England as rest of Britain
09 Oct 2018Research finds significant inequalities in cuts to council services across the country, with deprived areas in the north of England and London seeing the biggest drops in local authority spending since 2010.
European research network aims to tackle problematic internet use
09 Oct 2018A pan-European network to tackle problematic internet usage officially launches today with the publication of its manifesto, setting out the important questions that need to be addressed by the research community.
