New technique could uncover the secrets of ‘ringing’ black holes
Researchers have developed a technique to analyse how black holes ‘ring’ when they collide and merge: one of the universe’s most dramatic events.
Support local people to protect world’s nature, new report urges, as deadline for global conservation target looms
Achieving an international conservation target to protect almost a third of the world’s land and sea in the next four years could directly affect the...
Children in poorer countries face almost sixfold higher risk of dying after emergency surgery
Children who need life‑saving emergency surgery after a serious injury are almost six times more likely to die if in poorer countries than in wealthier...
Doctors favour explaining anxiety to patients as a human evolution ‘success story’
First major randomised controlled trial on evolutionary psychiatry finds mental health clinicians are far more likely to say describing anxiety as an evolved survival response...
Deaf opera singer welcomes new Cambridge-led cochlear implant trial
Janine Roebuck, a formerly deaf opera singer who regained her hearing thanks to cochlear implants, has described as ‘life changing’ an upcoming Cambridge-led trial in...
Can we feed the world without breaking the planet?
The global food system is more productive than ever, but it's pushing natural systems out of balance in the extreme. Can science help farmers produce...
Almost a minute to midnight: Cambridge helps launch open course on nuclear weapons as global tensions rise
The new Director of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk warns that a new nuclear arms race may be underway, as more countries...
Unseen Peter Shaffer play revealed at Trinity
A PhD student at Trinity College has unearthed a complete, unpublished play 65 years after Peter Shaffer wrote it - and before he reignited the...
Carbon credits have enabled vital protection of tropical forests, despite being oversold tenfold
A major analysis led by the University of Cambridge has found that many REDD+ projects achieved meaningful reductions in forest loss - offering real environmental...
Snow cover on Greek mountains has more than halved in four decades, study finds
Snow cover in the mountains of Greece – an important water source for communities, agriculture and natural ecosystems during the dry summer months – has...