Pedestrians choose healthy obstacles over boring pavements, study finds
05 December 2022Up to 78% of walkers would take a more challenging route featuring obstacles such as balancing beams, stepping stones and high steps, research has found....
Two Cambridge researchers awarded Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies
01 December 2022Professor Rachel Oliver and Professor Silvia Vignolini from the University of Cambridge have been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. Each...
Fitness levels accurately predicted using wearable devices – no exercise required
01 December 2022Cambridge researchers have developed a method for measuring overall fitness accurately on wearable devices – and more robustly than current consumer smartwatches and fitness monitors...
Graphene heads to the moon
30 November 2022Cambridge researchers are part of a European project testing graphene’s ability to protect spacecraft against the sticky, sharp dust on the moon’s surface – a...
Bird beak evolved before dinosaur extinction
30 November 2022Fossilised fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the longest-standing assumptions about the origins...
COVID has 'ruptured' social skills of the world’s poorest children, study suggests
30 November 2022Two interlinked studies, involving 8,000 primary pupils altogether, indicate children lost at least a third of a year in learning during lockdown.
New study suggests climate change may be affecting animal body size
29 November 2022A new study finds treeshrews increase in size in warmer settings, contrary to established norms.
Non-detection of key signal allows astronomers to determine what the first galaxies were – and weren’t – like
28 November 2022Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first astrophysical studies of the period...
Mussel memory
28 November 2022How fresh-water mussels and a stretch of the River Thames connected two postgraduate scientists separated by over half a century.
Mussel survey reveals alarming degradation of River Thames ecosystem since the 1960s
28 November 2022Scientists replicated a 1964 River Thames survey and found that mussel numbers have declined by almost 95%, with one species – the depressed river mussel...