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Opinion: AI can unlock productivity in public services

27 Mar 2025

AI applications have tremendous potential for improving productivity – saving time and money and improving quality of service. Here's what's required...

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Connecting AI to public benefit

26 Mar 2025

There’s no shortage of buzz around artificial intelligence (AI). From self-driving cars to the promise of revolutionising healthcare, AI is being...

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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Martin Ruehl

19 Mar 2025

Dr Martin Reuhl is a Senior Lecturer in German Intellectual History in the Faculty of History and a University Associate Professor in German History...

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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Itab Shuayb

19 Mar 2025

Dr Itab Shuayb is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge. She is also a professor of inclusive...

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Genetic study reveals hidden chapter in human evolution

18 Mar 2025

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least 2 ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread...

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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Katherine Hasegawa

17 Mar 2025

Katherine Hasegawa is an emerging and independent Venezuelan ARTivist based in Cambridge. Since 2019, Katherine been using real money as an artistic...

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Make Indian Sign Language official language and open more schools for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, study advises

17 Mar 2025

Around one in five (over 19%) of India’s deaf and hard-of-hearing children were out-of-school in 2014, according to a survey conducted for the Indian...

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Free tech eliminates the fear of public speaking

14 Mar 2025

Cambridge scientist launches free AI-enabled virtual reality platform that transforms users into skilled and confident public speakers.

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Cambridge Festival celebrates pioneering women for International Women’s Day

07 Mar 2025

For International Women’s Day (8 March), the Cambridge Festival (19 March – 4 April) is celebrating some of the remarkable contributions of women...

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News article or big oil ad?

06 Mar 2025

A sneaky form of advertising favoured by oil giants influences public opinion with climate action misperceptions, but researchers are studying...

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Pledge to phase out toxic lead ammunition in UK hunting by 2025 has failed

06 Mar 2025

A voluntary pledge made by UK shooting organisations in 2020 to replace lead shot with non-toxic alternatives by 2025 has failed, analysis by...

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Major new policy school at Cambridge set to advance ‘good growth’

03 Mar 2025

The Bennett School of Public Policy opens this autumn, and is already leading work on two of the most pressing policy problems of our time...

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