Single-material electronic skin gives robots the human touch
11 June 2025Scientists have developed a low-cost, durable, highly-sensitive robotic ‘skin’ that can be added to robotic hands like a glove, enabling robots to detect information about...
Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety – report
11 June 2025Cambridge researchers urge public health bodies like the NHS to provide trustworthy, research-driven alternatives to platforms driven by profit.
Whistleblowing tech based on Cambridge research launched by the Guardian
09 June 2025Whistleblowers can contact journalists more securely thanks to a new confidential and anonymous messaging technology co-developed by University of Cambridge researchers and software engineers at...
Cambridge researcher awarded the Shaw Prize in Astronomy
06 June 2025Professor George Efstathiou has been awarded the Shaw Prize in Astronomy, one of the biggest prizes in the field.
How a noblewoman masterminded the assassination of a priest
06 June 2025A Cambridge criminologist has uncovered new evidence in the killing of a priest, John Forde, who had his throat cut on a busy London street...
‘AI scientist’ suggests combinations of widely available non-cancer drugs can kill cancer cells
04 June 2025An ‘AI scientist’, working in collaboration with human scientists, has found that combinations of cheap and safe drugs – used to treat conditions such as...
Riders and drivers in the UK gig economy suffer anxiety over ratings and pay
03 June 2025Anxiety over income and unfair feedback dominates working lives of delivery riders, drivers and “digital labour” workers in UK’s gig economy – with many reporting physical pain and hours spent working without pay waiting for the...
Cambridge researchers awarded £7.5 million to build programmable plants
02 June 2025Two groups involving researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences are among nine teams to have been awarded funding today from the...
Cambridge researchers named as 2025 Academy of Medical Sciences Fellows
22 May 2025Four Cambridge biomedical and health researchers are among those announced today as newly-elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Enhanced breast cancer screening in the UK could detect an extra 3,500 cancers per year, trial shows
21 May 2025Researchers in Cambridge are calling for additional scans to be added to breast screening for women with very dense breasts. This follows a large-scale trial,...