Q&A with Sharon Peacock, coronavirus variant hunter
22 February 2021The UK is a world leader in sequencing SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Of all the coronavirus genomes that have been sequenced in the world,...
Psychological ‘signature’ for the extremist mind uncovered
22 February 2021Scientists have mapped an underlying “psychological signature” for people who are predisposed to holding extreme social, political or religious attitudes – and support violence in...
Lab-grown ‘mini-bile ducts’ used to repair human livers in regenerative medicine first
18 February 2021Scientists have used a technique to grow bile duct organoids – often referred to as ‘mini-organs’ – in the lab and shown that these can...
Cambridge psychologist helps Facebook fight climate change misinformation
18 February 2021Social media giant turns to behaviour and communication expert Dr Sander van der Linden to help them tackle the dangerous anti-science myths that circulate online.
New national modelling group to provide faster, more rigorous COVID-19 predictions
18 February 2021A new national consortium, co-led by the University of Cambridge, will bring together mathematical modellers to produce faster, more rigorous predictions for the COVID-19 pandemic...
The cosmologist modelling the Universe with maths
18 February 2021Dr Tobias Baldauf likes nothing better than seeing an equation ‘cross reality’. His work is helping us to answer some of the remaining questions about...
Cambridge researcher joins NASA science mission searching for signs of past life on Mars
18 February 2021Professor Nicholas Tosca from the University of Cambridge is the only UK scientist selected by NASA to be part of the core science team for...
First COVID-19 lockdown cost UK hospitality and high street £45 billion in turnover, researchers estimate
18 February 2021However, UK supermarkets and online retailers made an additional £4 billion each thanks to the coronavirus lockdown that began in March last year, according to...
Robotic dogs and laughter therapy: 10 ways to combat loneliness and isolation while social distancing
17 February 2021Robotic dogs, laughter therapy and mindfulness are some of the ways that might help people – particularly the elderly – cope with loneliness and social...
Light used to detect quantum information stored in 100,000 nuclear quantum bits
15 February 2021Researchers have found a way to use light and a single electron to communicate with a cloud of quantum bits and sense their behaviour, making...
