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Dr Arik Kershenbaum in Girton

Why animals talk

28 Aug 2024

Dr Arik Kershenbaum listens to wolves, gibbons and dolphins to reveal the messages they send one another. His work challenges our assumptions about...

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Successful honey-hunters know how to communicate with wild birds

08 Dec 2023

Wild honeyguide birds prefer to cooperate with people who have learned local cultural traditions to find and access honey-filled bees’ nests, a new...

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copper wires

Existing infrastructure will be unable to support demand for high-speed internet

26 Apr 2022

Researchers have shown that the UK’s existing copper network cables can support faster internet speeds, but only to a limit. They say additional...

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Speech bubble

AI reduces ‘communication gap’ for nonverbal people by as much as half

15 Jun 2020

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to reduce the ‘communication gap’ for nonverbal people with motor disabilities who rely on computers to...

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Unsplash

Study identifies key challenges when communicating potential policies

14 Jun 2018

Cambridge researchers set out to define a new science for policy communications, with ambitions of finding the “Goldilocks zone” between too much and...

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Professor Brian Cox

Brains or beauty? People perceive attractive scientists as more interesting but less able, studies show

22 May 2017

If you think of good science communicators, it’s likely that the names Brian Cox, Alice Roberts or Neil deGrasse Tyson may come to mind. But do you...

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Talk with Your Hands: a Cambridge Shorts film

18 Nov 2016

The capacity for language is what sets us apart from other animals. Talk with Your Hands , the third of four Cambridge Shorts films, explores the...

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Opinion: Accurate science or accessible science in the media – why not both?

02 Jun 2016

Michael Gaultois (Department of Chemistry), Joshua Conrad Jackson (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Ian Mahar (Boston University), and...

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Priceless treasures: in a shot commissioned to celebrate Cambridge University Library’s 600th anniversary, Professor Stephen Hawking is pictured with Newton’s annotated first edition of Principia Mathematica.

Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World

10 Mar 2016

Some of the world’s most valuable books and manuscripts – texts which have altered the very fabric of our understanding – will go on display in...

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How to get teams to share information

22 Jan 2016

Are you happy to share information with your colleagues? And do they share their valuable information with you? A number of companies have realised...

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The radiation pattern from a dipole antenna showing symmetry breaking of the electric field

New understanding of electromagnetism could enable ‘antennas on a chip’

09 Apr 2015

New understanding of the nature of electromagnetism could lead to antennas small enough to fit on computer chips – the ‘last frontier’ of...

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Five reasons why… corporates get environmental CSR communications wrong

25 Apr 2014

Publicising environmental CSR (corporate social responsibility) initiatives can boost a company’s reputation, but get it wrong and the accusations of...

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