Celebrity Twitter accounts display ‘bot-like’ behaviour
02 August 2017‘Celebrity’ Twitter accounts – those with more than 10 million followers – display more bot-like behaviour than users with fewer followers, according to new research.
No simple way of predicting breathing difficulties in pugs, French bulldogs and bulldogs from external features
01 August 2017As many as a half of all short-nosed dogs such as pugs, French bulldogs and bulldogs experience breathing difficulties related to their facial structure. However,...
Trading on human tides – the 'free market' of people smuggling
31 July 2017Cambridge criminologists are using emerging sources of information – from court records to Facebook groups – to analyse the networks behind one of the fastest-growing...
Genetic study suggests present-day Lebanese descend from biblical Canaanites
27 July 2017Researchers analysed DNA extracted from 4,000-year-old human remains to reveal that more than 90% of Lebanese ancestry is from ancient Canaanite populations.
Making Rome great again: fake views in the ancient world
27 July 2017A political leader who seeks to make his nation “great again” and a time when ‘post-truth’ rhetoric appears to support political ambitions. Not Trump’s America,...
The Electron Manifesto: transforming high performance computing with 'spintronics'
26 July 2017Electron ‘spin’ could hold the key to managing the world’s growing data demands without consuming huge amounts of energy. Now, researchers have shown that energy-efficient...
Target ‘best connected neighbours’ to stop spread of infection in developing countries
24 July 2017An innovative new study takes a network theory approach to targeted treatment in rural Africa, and finds that a simple algorithm may be more effective...
Archaeology shows there's more to millet than birdseed
24 July 2017Archaeological research shows that our prehistoric ancestors built resilience into their food supply. Now archaeologists say ‘forgotten’ millet – a cereal familiar today as birdseed...
Cambridge-led collaborations aim to tackle global food security and public health challenges
21 July 2017Two major research collaborations led by the University of Cambridge have been awarded almost £15 million in funding, the Minister of State for Universities and...
Casting light on the dark ages: Anglo-Saxon fenland is re-imagined
21 July 2017What was life in the fens like in the period known as the dark ages? Archaeologist Susan Oosthuizen revisits the history of an iconic wetland...