Stone Age bear genome reconstructed from DNA in Mexican cave
19 April 2021Scientists have reconstructed ancient DNA from soil for the first time, in an advance that will significantly enhance the study of animal, plant and microorganism evolution.
Artificial intelligence could be used to triage patients suspected at risk of early stage oesophageal cancer
15 April 2021Artificial intelligence ‘deep learning’ techniques can be used to triage suspected cases of Barrett oesophagus, a precursor to oesophageal cancer, potentially leading to faster and...
Gates Cambridge class of 2021
14 April 2021Gates Cambridge, Cambridge's leading international postgraduate scholarship programme, announces Class of 2021: 74 new Gates Cambridge Scholars-Elect will take up their postgraduate studies in October.
Stress does not lead to loss of self-control in eating disorders, study finds
12 April 2021A unique residential study has concluded that, contrary to perceived wisdom, people with eating disorders do not lose self-control – leading to binge-eating – in...
Following atoms in real time could lead to better materials design
12 April 2021Researchers have used a technique similar to MRI to follow the movement of individual atoms in real time as they cluster together to form two-dimensional...
Conservationists may be unintentionally spreading pathogens between threatened animal populations
12 April 2021Moving endangered species to new locations is often used as part of species conservation strategies, and can help to restore degraded ecosystems. But scientists say...
Researchers call for greater awareness of unintended consequences of CRISPR gene editing
12 April 2021CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing can lead to unintended mutations at the targeted section of DNA in early human embryos, researchers have revealed. This highlights the need...
Whitehall’s failure to adapt to devolution has left the Union on the brink – report
12 April 2021A study by Cambridge political scientists, including a former Permanent Secretary, charts two decades of central government’s inability to get to grips with devolution, and...
Poor children are being ‘failed by the system’ on road to higher education in lower-income countries
07 April 2021A generation of talented but disadvantaged children are being denied access to higher education because academic success in lower- and middle-income countries is continually ‘protected...
Opinion: Why scientists need to work more closely with faith communities on climate change
06 April 2021To make sufficient progress in the fight against climate change, scientists need to start taking religious groups more seriously as allies, writes Cambridge political scientist, Dr Tobias Müller, in Nature.
