Big data's hidden cost
16 January 2023As the climate emergency and cost-of-living crisis focus our minds on how to reduce energy, a group of scientists have highlighted the hidden environmental cost...
Runaway West Antarctic ice retreat can be slowed by climate-driven changes in ocean temperature
16 January 2023New research finds that ice-sheet-wide collapse in West Antarctica isn’t inevitable: the pace of ice loss varies according to regional differences in atmosphere and ocean...
Artificial pancreas successfully trialled for use by type 2 diabetes patients
11 January 2023Cambridge scientists have successfully trialled an artificial pancreas for use by patients living with type 2 diabetes. The device – powered by an algorithm developed...
Solar-powered system converts plastic and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels
09 January 2023Researchers have developed a system that can transform plastic waste and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels and other valuable products – using just the energy...
Astronomers use ‘little hurricanes’ to weigh and date planets around young stars
06 January 2023Little ‘hurricanes’ that form in the discs of gas and dust around young stars can be used to study certain aspects of planet formation, even...
First UK proton beam therapy trial for breast cancer launches
04 January 2023Cambridge researchers are jointly leading the first UK trial to test the benefits of proton beam therapy for certain patients with breast cancer.
Insulation only provides short-term reduction in household gas consumption
01 January 2023First study to look at long-term effect of home insulation in England and Wales finds fall in gas consumption per household was small and only...
Females perform better than males on a ‘theory of mind’ test across 57 countries
26 December 2022Females, on average, are better than males at putting themselves in others’ shoes and imagining what the other person is thinking or feeling, suggests a...
Men may not ‘perceive’ domestic tasks as needing doing in the same way as women, philosophers argue
22 December 2022By adding a gender dimension to the theory of “affordance perception” and applying it to the home, a new hypothesis may help answer questions of...
