Big data

On 6 February 2014, 21 Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities projects were announced as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council...

A space mission to create the largest, most-accurate, map of the Milky Way in three dimensions has been launched today. Astronomers say the data...

Four new targets have been added to the University of Cambridge’s Strategic Research Initiative program, which fosters multi-disciplinary...

This week, work begins on the next phase of development for the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope, with the University of Cambridge leading...

Brits notoriously love bureaucracy, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that the UK is a world leader in administrative data. With the digital era heralding...

Ambiguity in language poses the greatest challenge when it comes to training a computer to understand the written word. Now, new research aims to...

Over 80 regions of the genome that can increase an individual’s risk of breast, prostate and ovarian cancers have been found in the largest ever...

Cambridge scientists have honed techniques originally developed to spot distant galaxies and used them to identify biomarkers that signal a cancer’s...