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London Underground trains

London Underground polluted with metallic particles small enough to enter human bloodstrem

15 Dec 2022

The London Underground is polluted with ultrafine metallic particles small enough to end up in the human bloodstream, according to University of...

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Mural in the SoHo district of New York, one of the US cities featured in the study.

Gentrification changes the personality make-up of cities in just a few years

16 Dec 2021

Massive study of almost two million US residents reveals rising housing costs may drive increases in “openness” of character among both long-term and...

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Year 8 students work with Cambridge researchers to help their peers learn about the census

13 May 2021

Year 8 students work with Cambridge researchers to help their peers learn about the census.

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3D holographic head-up display could improve road safety

26 Apr 2021

Researchers have developed the first LiDAR-based augmented reality head-up display for use in vehicles. Tests on a prototype version of the...

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Entopia Building

World-first sustainable office retrofit begins at new CISL headquarters

09 Mar 2021

The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) has announced the start of works on its new visionary headquarters. This...

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Laboratory experiment of a cross-ventilated room

Wind more effective than cold air at cooling rooms naturally

20 Nov 2019

The effectiveness of non-mechanical, low-energy methods for moderating temperature and humidity has been evaluated in a series of experiments by...

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Winding through London

Cambridge researchers supporting world's largest air quality monitoring network in London

17 Jan 2019

Cambridge researchers are using their expertise in air quality sensors to support the new Breathe London project launched by Mayor Sadiq Khan earlier...

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Regent Street

Location, location, location: researchers develop model to predict retail failure

09 Oct 2018

Researchers have used a combination of location and transport data to predict the likelihood that a given retail business will succeed or fail.

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Cambridge and Nanjing launch strategic collaboration

27 Mar 2018

The new joint centre will support innovative research into smart cities and fully integrated urban environments.

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Opinion: Measures of poverty and well-being still ignore the environment – this must change

04 Aug 2017

Despite the value that humans get from nature, it is not included in measurements of poverty and well-being. Cambridge's Judith Schleicher and...

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Global collaboration takes off

12 Dec 2016

Funding approved for research projects involving UC Berkeley, Cambridge and the National University of Singapore

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Opinion: How the UK and India can lead the development of ecologically smart cities

08 Nov 2016

Bhaskar Vira and Eszter Kovacs (Department of Geography and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute) discuss how lessons learned...

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