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Social media ban for under-16s in the UK: Cambridge expert reaction

15 June 2026

Top psychologists at the University whose research focuses on the relationships between digital technology, society and mental health have responded to the UK government's announcement...

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Vasily Belokurov and Christine Holt

Two Cambridge researchers awarded the Kavli Prize

10 June 2026

Professor Vasily Belokurov and Professor Christine Holt, both from the University of Cambridge, are among ten scientists awarded the Kavli Prize 2026, one of the...

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Aerial view of cattle in a field

New strategy to tackle bovine TB in England

10 June 2026

A new strategy published today sets out a clear, practical plan to achieve Officially Bovine TB-Free status in England by 2038, backed by an ambition...

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A lack of sex held back life’s diversity for millions of years

09 June 2026

The way that Earth’s first animals reproduced held back life’s diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of sexual...

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Policy recommendations in climate-related research often ‘an afterthought’, major analysis finds

09 June 2026

Too often, policy recommendations in climate-related research are either an afterthought or stray too far into advocacy, a major new analysis has found. 

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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy passes the American Flag located at NASA's Launch Complex 39

SpaceX’s hold over orbit matches East India Company’s grip on maritime trade

09 June 2026

Elon Musk’s SpaceX holds sway over the emerging space economy in a way that has more in common with notorious colonial-era trading companies than the...

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‘Super-connected' teenagers key to tackling violent crime, study suggests

09 June 2026

Mapping co-offender data from police records reveals the young people embedded in criminal networks who are most likely to carry knives, commit violence and become...

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Professor Jonathan Heeney

New ‘universal vaccine’ technology could protect us from future virus outbreaks

05 June 2026

A Cambridge-led team has developed a way to engineer better vaccines that could provide broad protection from thousands of variants of viruses - such as...

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Odysseus returning to Penelope. Terracotta plaque, Greek, Melian c.460–450 BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Retelling the Odyssey: Classicists hope for gods and women in Nolan blockbuster

04 June 2026

Cambridge Odyssey experts hope that Christopher Nolan’s film will feature enough female characters and do justice to the epic’s crucial underworld scene.

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Mining in a Wildlife Reserve, alongside a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Mining for ‘clean energy’ metals driving widespread forest loss in Africa, study finds

03 June 2026

Industrial-scale mining in Africa to support global supply chains is leading to unprecedented deforestation across the continent, with 34 hectares of forest removed for every...

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