Social media data used to predict retail failure
09 Oct 2018Researchers have used a combination of social media and transport data to predict the likelihood that a given retail business will succeed or fail.
Austerity cuts ‘twice as deep’ in England as rest of Britain
09 Oct 2018Research finds significant inequalities in cuts to council services across the country, with deprived areas in the north of England and London seeing the biggest drops in local authority spending since 2010.
European research network aims to tackle problematic internet use
09 Oct 2018A pan-European network to tackle problematic internet usage officially launches today with the publication of its manifesto, setting out the important questions that need to be addressed by the research community.
Restoring Europe’s endangered landscapes for life
09 Oct 2018Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) last week unveiled a programme to restore priority landscapes across Europe. The Endangered Landscapes Programme (ELP) will provide a demonstration of nature’s powers of recovery, and the benefits to habitats, species and people of restoring biodiversity and ecosystem processes to degraded land and seas.
Scientists develop mouse ‘embryo-like structures’ with organisation along body’s major axes
03 Oct 2018A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has developed an artificial mouse embryo-like structure capable of forming the three major axes of the body. The technique, reported today in the journal Nature, could reduce the use of mammalian embryos in research.
Sir Greg Winter wins the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
03 Oct 2018Sir Greg Winter, of the University of Cambridge, has been jointly awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Frances Arnold and George Smith, for his pioneering work in using phage display for the directed evolution of antibodies, with the aim of producing new pharmaceuticals.
Neglected baby beetles evolve greater self-reliance
28 Sep 2018A new study reveals that when burying beetle larvae are denied parental support, they evolve bigger jaws to compensate.
Women much less likely to ask questions in academic seminars than men
27 Sep 2018A new study reveals a stark disparity between male and female participation in a key area of academic life and offers recommendations to ensure all voices are heard.
Ebola and Lassa fever targeted by new vaccine trial and improved surveillance
25 Sep 2018Scientists hope that a new approach to vaccine development, combined with improved surveillance of potential future threats of outbreak, could help to massively reduce the impact of deadly diseases such as Ebola, Marburg and Lassa fever.
Scientists reveal plan to target the cause of Alzheimer’s disease
24 Sep 2018Researchers have developed a new way to target the toxic particles that destroy healthy brain cells in Alzheimer’s disease.