Smart listeners and smooth talkers
16 Nov 2011Human-like performance in speech technology could be just around the corner, thanks to a new research project that links three UK universities.
Come here often?
04 Aug 2011A new way of predicting which people may become friends on social networks - based on the type of places they visit - has been formulated by University of Cambridge researchers.
High-risk hearts: a South Asian epidemic
30 Jun 2011Why is heart disease increasing at a greater rate in South Asia than in any other region globally? Large-scale population studies in Pakistan and Bangladesh aim to discover the basis of a little-studied public health problem of epidemic proportions.
Paranoid Android? Get connected to a new study…
17 Jun 2011More than 1,000 people around the world have signed up to take part in the biggest ever public study of Android phone usage.
With friends like these…
22 Apr 2011Cambridge researchers have created a website that combines the Facebook profiles of fans of companies and public figures with personality testing to create what they are describing as a “revolutionary” new marketing tool.
FluPhone: disease tracking by app
21 Apr 2011A mobile phone app developed by Cambridge researchers that tracks how people behave during an epidemic could be used to limit disease spread.
Defending crops with maths
18 Mar 2011A mathematical toolkit could dramatically reduce crop losses from pests and pathogens, helping to safeguard future food security.
Cancer: what's on the cards?
04 Jan 2010Scientists at Strangeways Research Laboratory are leading the search for the ‘genetic cards’ that determine an individual’s risk of cancer.
Data mining the complex cancer landscape
04 Jan 2010Computational biology is helping scientists to navigate through the data deluge generated from the analysis of cancer genomes.
Sharing critical results in the biomedical sciences
10 Sep 2009Sharing the fruits of research in the biomedical sciences is critical for the advancement of knowledge, yet with the advent of large-scale data gathering following the completion of the genome projects this is becoming harder to facilitate and more difficult to monitor, an article in Nature reports this week.
