Use of AI to fight COVID-19 risks harming 'disadvantaged groups', experts warn
16 Mar 2021Rapid deployment of artificial intelligence and machine learning to tackle coronavirus must still go through ethical checks and balances, or we risk...
Is Social Media Changing Your Life?
16 Mar 2021Social media: lifeline, or source of mental health problems? With its effects still not fully understood, Cambridge researchers discuss the best...
Digital support
10 Feb 2021Research published today shows how digital providers are coming together to support the mental health needs of millions of users unable to access...
New method developed for ‘up-sizing’ mini organs used in medical research
08 Feb 2021A team of engineers and scientists has developed a method of ‘up-sizing’ organoids: miniature collections of cells which mimic the behaviour of...
‘Multiplying’ light could be key to ultra-powerful optical computers
08 Feb 2021New type of optical computing could solve highly complex problems that are out of reach for even the most powerful supercomputers.
Free online tool calculates risk of COVID-19 transmission in poorly-ventilated spaces
20 Jan 2021The vital role of ventilation in the spread of COVID-19 has been quantified by researchers, who have found that in poorly-ventilated spaces, the...
Cambridge launches Regulatory Genome Project
21 Dec 2020The project will use machine learning to sequence the world’s regulatory text and create an open-source repository of machine-readable regulatory...
Architecting the future
08 Dec 2020Arm is working with Cambridge researchers to make our phones and computers more secure, more efficient and ready for the digital revolution.
Computer vision app allows easier monitoring of diabetes
13 Nov 2020A computer vision technology developed by University of Cambridge engineers has now been developed into a free mobile phone app for regular...
Honour among thieves: the study of a cybercrime marketplace in action
06 Nov 2020Researchers at the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre have revealed what they’ve learned from analysing hundreds of thousands of illicit trades that took...
New drone technology advances volcanic monitoring
30 Oct 2020Specially-adapted drones, developed by an international team involving scientists from the University of Cambridge, are transforming how we forecast...
The scientist who launched a comic and flew the flag for Black History Month
23 Oct 2020Self-confessed comic addict Osarenkhoe Ogbeide sees beyond the superhero to the scientist. When he’s not developing printable gas sensors, he’s...