Racial discrimination linked to increased risk of premature babies
05 August 2022Women who experience racial discrimination on the basis of their ethnicity, race or nationality are at increased risk of giving birth prematurely, according to a...
Prostate cancer cases risk late detection due to misleading urinary focus
04 August 2022Men with early, curable stages of prostate cancer are missing opportunities to have their cancer detected because national guidelines and media health campaigns focus on...
Children with rare genetic disorders more likely to be diagnosed with developmental, behavioural and mental health problems
03 August 2022A major study of children with intellectual disabilities has highlighted the additional challenges that they often face, including a much-increased likelihood of being diagnosed as...
Smart lighting system based on quantum dots more accurately reproduces daylight
03 August 2022Researchers have designed smart, colour-controllable white light devices from quantum dots – tiny semiconductors just a few billionths of a metre in size – which...
Students help to turn 100-year-old bakery into thriving online business
03 August 2022Despite a few challenging years as a result of COVID-19, legendary Cambridge bakery Fitzbillies has emerged triumphant, with the help and insights of a group...
Catastrophic climate risks ‘dangerously underexplored’
01 August 2022Researchers call for a new ‘Climate Endgame’ agenda and say far too little work has gone into understanding the mechanisms by which rising temperatures might...
Could this monster help you overcome anxiety?
29 July 2022In 2017, Ninja Theory, advised by Cambridge academic Professor Paul Fletcher, took the gaming world by storm with Hellblade, which accurately depicted psychosis. Now the...
AI tackles the challenge of materials structure prediction
27 July 2022Researchers have designed a machine learning method that can predict the structure of new materials with five times the efficiency of the current standard, removing...
Prehistoric roots of cold sore virus traced through ancient DNA
27 July 2022First ancient herpes genomes to be sequenced suggest a Bronze Age flourishing linked to migrations into Europe and possibly the emergence of kissing.
Natural clean-up: bacteria can remove plastic pollution from lakes
26 July 2022A study of 29 European lakes has found that some naturally-occurring lake bacteria grow faster and more efficiently on the remains of plastic bags than...
