The UK’s first quantum network was launched today in Cambridge, enabling ‘unhackable’ communications, made secure by the laws of physics, between...
First study to model the organisation behind trade in illegal border crossings shows no “Mafia-like” monopoly of routes from Africa into Europe via...
An innovative new study takes a network theory approach to targeted treatment in rural Africa, and finds that a simple algorithm may be more...
An online experiment reveals that the overall level of cooperation in a group almost doubles when the previous actions of all its members are...
Private information would be much more secure if individuals moved away from cloud-based storage towards peer-to-peer systems, where data is stored...
Most of the moves we make are within 5 km of our previous addresses, yet these short migrations are highly significant within individual lives. New...
New research aims to ensure that we can exploit the full benefits of the digital world and still protect our online privacy.
Threats that cause supply chains and other networks to break down can cascade through today’s interconnected world of social, economic and financial...
Understanding the spread of infectious diseases in populations is the key to controlling them. If the UK was facing a flu pandemic, how could we...
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...
The world-renowned sociologist, Professor Manuel Castells, is to be the second Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media at the University of Cambridge...
The emoticons used on Twitter are a language in themselves and are taking on new and often surprising meanings of their own, according to new...
