Our unprecedented ability to collect, store and analyse data is opening up new frontiers in science and the humanities.
New research aims to ensure that we can exploit the full benefits of the digital world and still protect our online privacy.
Population studies on a vast scale are providing the power to enable accurate risk assessment – and intervention – into cardiovascular disease.
A new project has shown that by using existing sources of information about traffic flow it is possible to create a minute-by-minute image of...
Human-like performance in speech technology could be just around the corner, thanks to a new research project that links three UK universities.
A new way of predicting which people may become friends on social networks - based on the type of places they visit - has been formulated by...
Why is heart disease increasing at a greater rate in South Asia than in any other region globally? Large-scale population studies in Pakistan and...
More than 1,000 people around the world have signed up to take part in the biggest ever public study of Android phone usage.
Cambridge researchers have created a website that combines the Facebook profiles of fans of companies and public figures with personality testing to...
A mobile phone app developed by Cambridge researchers that tracks how people behave during an epidemic could be used to limit disease spread.
A mathematical toolkit could dramatically reduce crop losses from pests and pathogens, helping to safeguard future food security.
Scientists at Strangeways Research Laboratory are leading the search for the ‘genetic cards’ that determine an individual’s risk of cancer.
Computational biology is helping scientists to navigate through the data deluge generated from the analysis of cancer genomes.
