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A PhD student at Trinity College has unearthed a complete, unpublished play 65 years after Peter Shaffer wrote it - and before he reignited the...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...
Racism and socioeconomic stress may alter pregnancy biology, leaving black women nearly three times more likely to die
A University of Cambridge study has found that stresses such as systemic racism and socioeconomic disadvantage may sensitise key processes in the body during pregnancy...
Deep-ocean heat has been marching closer to Antarctica, study reveals
A decades-long study of oceanographic data provides the first evidence that deep-ocean heat has moved closer to Antarctica, threatening the fragile ice shelves that fringe...
Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women
Gambling companies are reaching young men – the group most likely to exhibit problem gambling behaviour – on social media at more than double the...
Deforestation policies are failing to protect against a potentially bigger threat to the Brazilian Amazon
Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon since 2019, he works...
Tolls saved Britain from pothole hell in the Industrial Revolution
The ‘turnpike’ toll road system deserves far more credit for improving roads in 18th-century England and Wales, a new study argues. Analysis of nearly 100...
Malaria shaped the distribution of early humans across Africa
A new study suggests that malaria influenced where early humans lived in sub-Saharan Africa between around 74,000 and 5,000 years ago, fragmenting populations and influencing...