British Academy elects twelve Cambridge researchers to Fellowship in 2025
18 July 2025Twelve academics from the University of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social science
AI can accelerate search for more effective Alzheimer’s medicines by streamlining clinical trials
17 July 2025Scientists have used AI to re-analyse a clinical trial for an Alzheimer’s medicine, and identified a group of patients who responded to treatment. The work...
Lost English legend decoded, solving a Chaucerian mystery and revealing a medieval preacher’s meme
16 July 2025A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge scholars now believe the Song of...
Smarter targeted radiotherapy just as effective for low-risk breast cancer and reduces risk of side effects
15 July 2025Thousands of women who undergo radiotherapy for low-risk breast cancer could be spared some of the side effects of treatment after a study confirmed that...
Astronomers find a giant hiding in the ‘fog’ around a young star
14 July 2025Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc of gas and...
At the heart of life-changing science
11 July 2025The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute is a thriving community of scientists and clinicians, the largest concentration of its kind in Europe,...
Banking on AI risks derailing net zero goals: report on energy costs of Big Tech
10 July 2025With countries such as the UK declaring ambitious goals for both AI leadership and decarbonisation, a new report suggests that AI could drive a 25-fold...
Seaside more likely to make us nostalgic than green places
09 July 2025People in the UK and US are more likely to feel nostalgic towards places by the sea, lakes or rivers than they are towards fields,...
Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of human disease history
09 July 2025Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health today.
Putting women’s health in the spotlight
02 July 2025Cambridge researchers are working to undo a longstanding male bias in health research, to help drive more effective healthcare for all.