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What’s causing so many disease outbreaks - and can we stop them in time?

26 Jun 2026

Global changes are driving the emergence of dangerous new infectious diseases and accelerating their spread. Cambridge scientists are working to stay...

Rescue teams at one of the landslides following the Taiwan earthquake

Researchers use AI to ‘see’ landslides and target disaster response

22 Jul 2025

Researchers from the University of Cambridge are using AI to speed up landslide detection following major earthquakes and extreme rainfall events...

Holographic replay field results of 3D LiDAR processed data sets. LiDAR truck and tree objects are displayed.

360-degree head-up display view could warn drivers of road obstacles in real time

20 Dec 2023

Researchers have developed an augmented reality head-up display that could improve road safety by displaying potential hazards as high-resolution...

Risky business

07 Sep 2023

Launched during Open Cambridge, a new self-guided trail, created by researchers at Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), takes...

Futuristic image of a doctor looking at brain scans

How sure is sure? Incorporating human error into machine learning

10 Aug 2023

Researchers are developing a way to incorporate one of the most human of characteristics – uncertainty – into machine learning systems.

Mount Rinjani in Indonesia, which had one of the largest eruptions in the last millennium in 1257 (magnitude 7).

Risk of volcano catastrophe ‘a roll of the dice’, say experts

17 Aug 2022

While funding is pumped into preventing low-probability scenarios such as asteroid collision, the far more likely threat of a large volcanic eruption...

Drinkers risk exceeding legal driving limit by underestimating how drunk they are

07 Dec 2021

As many as a half of all drinkers underestimated how drunk they were, judging themselves still safe to drive despite having exceeded the legal driving...

Screenshot from Covid-19 risk calculator

Interactive tool helps you decide how to protect yourself and others from COVID-19

02 Dec 2021

Is it risky to sing in a choir? What are the risks of eating in a small restaurant? How much difference does it make to open windows or clean surfaces...

Two-metre COVID-19 rule is ‘arbitrary measurement’ of safety

23 Nov 2021

A new study has shown that the airborne transmission of COVID-19 is highly random and suggests that the two-metre rule was a number chosen from a risk...

Real-time drone intent monitoring could enable safer use of drones and prevent a repeat of 2018 Gatwick incident

15 Sep 2021

Researchers have developed a real-time approach that can help prevent incidents like the large-scale disruption at London’s Gatwick Airport in 2018...

Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant were more likely to be admitted to hospital compared to patients with Alpha variant

31 Aug 2021

Largest study to date analysing more than 40,000 COVID-19 cases finds a two-fold increased risk of hospitalisation from delta versus alpha variant...

Clouds of ash rising up from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in 2010

Minor volcanic eruptions could ‘cascade’ into global catastrophe, experts warn

06 Aug 2021

Researchers call for a shift in focus away from risks of 'super-volcanic' eruptions and towards likelier scenarios of smaller eruptions in key global...

Risk and uncertainty

What’s causing so many disease outbreaks - and can we stop them in time?

Researchers use AI to ‘see’ landslides and target disaster response

360-degree head-up display view could warn drivers of road obstacles in real time

Risky business

How sure is sure? Incorporating human error into machine learning

Risk of volcano catastrophe ‘a roll of the dice’, say experts

Drinkers risk exceeding legal driving limit by underestimating how drunk they are

Interactive tool helps you decide how to protect yourself and others from COVID-19

Two-metre COVID-19 rule is ‘arbitrary measurement’ of safety

Real-time drone intent monitoring could enable safer use of drones and prevent a repeat of 2018 Gatwick incident

Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant were more likely to be admitted to hospital compared to patients with Alpha variant

Minor volcanic eruptions could ‘cascade’ into global catastrophe, experts warn

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