Successful honey-hunters know how to communicate with wild birds
08 December 2023Wild honeyguide birds prefer to cooperate with people who have learned local cultural traditions to find and access honey-filled bees’ nests, a new study has...
Using machine learning to monitor driver ‘workload’ could help improve road safety
07 December 2023Researchers have developed an adaptable algorithm that could improve road safety by predicting when drivers are able to safely interact with in-vehicle systems or receive...
Researchers redesign future mRNA therapeutics to prevent potentially harmful immune responses
06 December 2023Researchers have discovered that misreading of therapeutic mRNAs by the cell’s decoding machinery can cause an unintended immune response in the body. They have identified...
Services across England now lag far behind East Germany, as experts call for ‘universal basic infrastructure’ in UK
05 December 2023Per capita access to hospitals, mental health services, and further education facilities in German towns and cities – primarily in the former GDR – now...
Diamonds and rust help unveil ‘impossible’ quasi-particles
05 December 2023Researchers have discovered magnetic monopoles – isolated magnetic charges – in a material closely related to rust, a result that could be used to power...
Cambridge researchers recognised as Future Leaders by UKRI
04 December 2023Four researchers are among the UK’s “most promising research leaders” who will benefit from £101 million from UKRI to tackle major global issues and commercialise their...
Taking Cambridge global
01 December 2023In 2013, Cambridge opened its first-ever overseas research centre, the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES). Over the past decade, CARES has...
‘Bone biographies’ reveal life and times of medieval England’s common people
01 December 2023Researchers have given medieval Cambridge residents the ‘Richard III treatment’ to reveal the hard-knock lives of those who lived in the city during the University's...
Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language
30 November 2023Researchers find that babies don’t begin to process phonetic information reliably until seven months old which they say is too late to form the foundation...
Newborn babies at risk from bacteria commonly carried by mothers
29 November 2023One in 200 newborns is admitted to a neonatal unit with sepsis caused by a bacteria commonly carried by their mothers – much greater than...