Cambridge and AI: what makes this city a good place to start a business?
13 February 2018What makes a city as small as Cambridge a hotbed for AI and machine learning start-ups? A critical mass of clever people obviously helps. But...
Illuminating the hidden kingdom of the truffle
12 February 2018Truffles are one of the world’s most expensive ingredients, and also one of the most mysterious. Now, with the help of a 170-year-old ‘living laboratory’,...
‘Women scientists have built our world. It’s time to invest in them’ – The Cambridge women campaigning for gender equality in science
11 February 2018“I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy”.
Newly-developed image guidelines will improve mobile shopping experience worldwide
07 February 2018A new type of online product image, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with global consumer goods company Unilever, could improve...
Shoals of sticklebacks differ in their collective personalities
07 February 2018Research from the University of Cambridge has revealed that, among schooling fish, groups can have different collective personalities, with some shoals sticking closer together, being...
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast: what’s next for thinking machines?
06 February 2018Our lives are already enhanced by AI – or at least an AI in its infancy – with technologies using algorithms that help them to...
How Japan’s ‘salaryman’ is becoming cool
02 February 2018Japanese men are becoming cool. The suit-and-tie salaryman remodels himself with beauty treatments and 'cool biz' fashion. Loyal company soldiers are reborn as cool,...
Preparing for the future: artificial intelligence and us
02 February 2018Today we begin a month-long focus on research related to artificial intelligence. Here, four researchers reflect on the power of a technology to impact nearly every...
“Our weapon is public opinion”
01 February 2018One of the largest surviving collections of suffrage posters from the early twentieth century are housed in Cambridge University Library’s famous tower.
Zero gravity graphene promises success in space
31 January 2018In a series of experiments conducted last month, Cambridge researchers experienced weightlessness testing graphene’s application in space.