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Poisons, plants and Palaeolithic hunters | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/poisons-plants-and-palaeolithic-hunters21 Mar 2015: She is now putting those techniques to the test with samples obtained from museum collections. ... To fabricate a poison is easy and economic, and the risk is minimal.
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How can education be truly transformative? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/how-can-education-be-truly-transformative14 Oct 2014: Arif has been working on issues relating to education and development for several years since finishing an undergraduate and masters programme in economics. ... However, after some time working in development, he soon felt that the problems the poor
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Research reveals how elephants 'see' the world | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/research-reveals-how-elephants-see-the-world28 Aug 2013: research, education programming and international collaborations, was designed in partnership with and co-authored by 12-14 year-old students from a middle school in New York. ... Think Elephants aimed to test elephants on this because they are a wild,
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The new geography of personality | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-new-geography-of-personality1 Jan 2009: Social scientists have argued that technology, human capital and community are essential ingredients for economic and social prosperity.
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Keeping the lights on in Ghana | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/keeping-the-lights-on-in-ghana7 Feb 2017: The result is a dense product that can be given a surface glaze to enable it to pass national safety standards tests for porcelain insulators.”. ... Making sure the electricity supply is widely available and reliable will aid the growth of industries
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Opinion: Brexit and the importance of languages for Britain #2 |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/opinion-brexit-and-the-importance-of-languages-for-britain-27 Oct 2016: economic and cultural strengths mean that the UK will continue to attract business and investment from across the world even once we have left the EU. ... More information and advice for prospective students and teachers of Modern Languages and Asian
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Reading closely: Faculty of English | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/reading-closely-faculty-of-english1 May 2010: We can only measure what he achieved, or even see it clearly, when we recognise how much the underlying culture of the Middle Ages shaped the world’s greatest playwright.’. ... A corpus of 26 million words taken from test sheets for speakers
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GPS backpacks reveal sheep flocking strategy | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gps-backpacks-reveal-sheep-flocking-strategy25 Jul 2012: He suggested that creatures as different as insects, fish and cattle all react to danger by moving towards the middle of their respective swarms, schools or herds. ... the flock, as well as how far each sheep was from the middle of the cluster on a second
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Traders’ hormones ‘may destabilise financial markets’ | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/traders-hormones-may-destabilise-financial-markets2 Jul 2015: The research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
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UK falling short in cutting carbon emissions | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/uk-falling-short-in-cutting-carbon-emissions16 Feb 2007: He will join fellow experts from fields including economics, environmental policy, architecture and the arts in a series of presentations and discussions on how to confront climate change. ... What we need to ask as a society is are we serious about -
New Cambridge study measures countries’ well-being | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-cambridge-study-measures-countries-well-being21 Dec 2011: The key message is that the UK government, like many around the world, now recognises that economic measures such as GDP do not provide adequate information about a society’s progress. ... The UK was near the middle in overall well-being as well as in
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The ‘flying scientist’ who chased spores | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-flying-scientist-who-chased-spores11 Feb 2015: But how to test this? “He was carrying out his studies in the 1920s and 1930s when research methodology was in its infancy,” said Horry. ... Inset image – top: Dillon Weston. Credit: John S Murray. Inset image – middle: R100 at mast in Canada.
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Bookings open for Cambridge Festival of Ideas | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/bookings-open-for-cambridge-festival-of-ideas12 Sep 2012: bomb of Britain's growing pensioner population, chaired by the Financial Times' economics editor Chris Giles. ... BBC Radio Four Controller Gwyneth Williams will talk about the future of the network and its new move into oral history, Dr David
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Putting our House in order | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/putting-our-house-in-order25 Oct 2013: middle of the Chamber. ... I wanted to do this research to test my hypothesis that the Palladian style, so successful for country houses, was a dull subspecies of public architecture imposed on the country by
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Academics to join British Academy Fellowship | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/academics-to-join-british-academy-fellowship23 Jul 2010: He has a particular interest in the economic, social and political history of southern Italy in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and has written a wide variety of publications on ... His research focuses upon the social, economic and cultural
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Can the Revolution in Kurdish Syria succeed? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/can-the-revolution-in-kurdish-syria-succeed2 Feb 2015: political parties, and the self-government in charge of economic development, healthcare, and foreign affairs. ... in fact a democratic Middle East, capable of accommodating cultural, ethnic and religious diversity through democratic confederalism.
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Minimising ‘false positives’ key to vaccinating against bovine TB |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/minimising-false-positives-key-to-vaccinating-against-bovine-tb19 Feb 2015: that test negative – rather than the efficacy of a vaccine, that is the dominant factor in determining whether vaccination can provide a protective economic benefit when used to supplement existing controls. ... 3%. However, validating a test to such a
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‘Gut feelings’ help make more successful financial traders |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gut-feelings-help-make-more-successful-financial-traders19 Sep 2016: In economics and finance most models analyse conscious reasoning and are based on psychology. ... These tasks test how accurately a person, when at rest, can count their heartbeats.
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Vice-Chancellor’s awards showcase impact and engagement during the…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/vice-chancellors-awards-showcase-impact-and-engagement-during-the-pandemic5 Oct 2020: These awards celebrate research that best demonstrates social, cultural and economic impact through engagement. ... the potential to create significant economic, social and cultural impact from and engagement with and for research.
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Seven hours of sleep is optimal in middle and old age, say…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/seven-hours-of-sleep-is-optimal-in-middle-and-old-age-say-researchers28 Apr 2022: Search. Search. Seven hours of sleep is optimal in middle and old age, say researchers. ... Research. Seven hours of sleep is optimal in middle and old age, say researchers..
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Can democracy meet our 21st century challenges? | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/can-democracy-meet-our-21st-century-challenges28 Jun 2012: been bad for western democracies in terms of their involvement in war, their economic policies and their ability to confront climate change. ... Glen Rangwala, Lecturer in International Politics, spoke about the outlook for democracy in the Middle East
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Indians and Europeans share a milky past | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/indians-and-europeans-share-a-milky-past9 Sep 2011: The team’s study may also help scientists’ understanding of evolutionary processes such as biological adaptation and how culture and economic developments affect human biology. ... Previous studies had shown that lactase persistence had evolved at
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AI trained to identify least green homes by Cambridge researchers |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ai-trained-to-identify-least-green-homes-by-cambridge-researchers2 Nov 2023: Houses can be ‘hard to decarbonize’ for various reasons including their age, structure, location, social-economic barriers and availability of data.
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Original sin and the risk of epidemics | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/original-sin-and-the-risk-of-epidemics10 Oct 2012: Antibodies against seasonal flu appear to peak in school-age children, drop in middle age and rise again in the over 65s. ... Only when the strain evolves ‘out of reach’ of the original antigenic sin are new antibodies generated in later middle age. -
‘Pill on a string’ test to transform oesophageal cancer diagnosis |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pill-on-a-string-test-to-transform-oesophageal-cancer-diagnosis30 Jul 2020: order to help identify priority cases with suspected cancer who need further tests urgently. ... The researchers are currently putting the Cytosponge test through an economic evaluation and hope that it will be rolled out within GP practices within three
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Pets are a child’s best friend, not their siblings | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pets-are-a-childs-best-friend-not-their-siblings26 Jan 2017: This study, published in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, was conducted in collaboration with the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, part of Mars Petcare and co-funded by the Economic
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How could multilingualism benefit India’s poorest schoolchildren? |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/how-could-multilingualism-benefit-indias-poorest-schoolchildren20 Nov 2018: By looking at the mismatch between home and school languages, and by using tests and other socio-economic and educational variables, we try to find out whether these children are advantaged ... What we would recommend for everyone, not just low
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Cambridge, Intel and Dell join forces on UK’s fastest AI…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-intel-and-dell-join-forces-on-uks-fastest-ai-supercomputer1 Nov 2023: UK to deliver fusion power to grid in the 2040s, to realise Net Zero more generally, to seed high value UK jobs in AI and ‘digital’ and to drive economic growth
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If you go down to the woods today… | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/if-you-go-down-to-the-woods-today10 Feb 2015: The plane is one of a small fleet currently undergoing test flights in Indonesia. ... To develop the algorithms, researchers led by Schӧnlieb and Coomes are using test data previously acquired by Coomes’ group using manned flights over five European
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The University of Cambridge students aiming to send a rocket into…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-university-spaceflight-griffin-i-rocket-launch-project29 Jun 2023: PULSAR Hybrid Rocket Test. Although many members of the team are studying engineering, others in the society come from a wide range of backgrounds, for example business studies. ... We’re from the bit in the middle, where nothing had really happened
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Q&A: how archives make history | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/qa-how-archives-make-history7 Apr 2014: Many used their linguistic talents to work as archivists and copyists of Middle Eastern manuscripts. ... From the Middle Ages, archives were established by political or religious institutions, whose officials aimed to preserve the authority of those
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First complete genome data extracted from ancient Egyptian mummies |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-complete-genome-data-extracted-from-ancient-egyptian-mummies30 May 2017: Recent advances in the study of ancient DNA present an opportunity to test existing understandings of Egyptian history using ancient genetic data. ... They were able to use the data gathered to test previous hypotheses drawn from archaeological and
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Neuroscience – from molecules to mind | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/neuroscience-from-molecules-to-mind2 Feb 2016: economics. When it became clear nearly ten years ago that neuroscience was growing at an extraordinarily fast rate and across a huge range of disciplinary lines, the University set up Cambridge
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Messaging on healthy foods may not prompt healthier purchases: study…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/messaging-on-healthy-foods-may-not-prompt-healthier-purchases-study28 Jun 2022: of the El-Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics & Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School. ... To test healthy or non-healthy messages standing alone, the impact on choice was compared with advertising banners unrelated to food such as tissues.
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New US Scholars selected for Gates Cambridge Scholarship | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/new-us-scholars-selected-for-gates-cambridge-scholarship9 Feb 2017: His research will focus on governing institutions, most notably tribal governments, and how an individual’s decision affects economic development policies. ... She hopes to target the philosophy of cognitive psychology through the multispecies
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Packed weekend at the Festival of Ideas | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/packed-weekend-at-the-festival-of-ideas26 Oct 2012: Other events on Saturday include a talk about the joys of middle age by Dr David Bainbridge; a debate about domestic violence against immigrant women; a panel discussion about the rise
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The “zero-chance” doctor who now advises government
https://www.cam.ac.uk/this-cambridge-life/the-zero-chance-doctor-who-now-advises-government19 Oct 2022: I’m particularly interested in researching chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer in populations that have been understudied, for example people in the Middle East and South Asia and ... Although I’m best known for my work on
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Cambridge ranked ‘most visible’ on social networks | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-ranked-most-visible-on-social-networks23 Feb 2012: In third was the London School of Economics with just over half Oxford’s score, with Newcastle University in fourth.
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Chinese migrant workers in Japan: behind the headlines | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/chinese-migrant-workers-in-japan-behind-the-headlines26 Aug 2014: Meng, who is doing a PhD in Asian & Middle East Studies at the University of Cambridge, says the Japanese press have tended to focus on the negative and depicted the relationship ... Most then return to China and cannot reapply. However, if they pass a
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£50 million of new funding to support Cambridge companies |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/ps50-million-of-new-funding-to-support-cambridge-companies10 Oct 2013: With the launch of CIC, the University and our co-investors are taking an important step in supporting the continued economic growth of the region and the country. ... With the launch of CIC, the University and our co-investors are taking an important
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Socio-economic status predicts UK boys’ development of essential…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/socio-economic-status-predicts-uk-boys-development-of-essential-thinking-skills21 Jul 2020: Search. Search. Socio-economic status predicts UK boys’ development of essential thinking skills. ... The participants completed computer-based thinking games to test their executive functions, and various mathematical tests to assess numeracy.
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Media fuelling rising hostility towards Muslims in Britain |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/media-fuelling-rising-hostility-towards-muslims-in-britain28 Apr 2016: Can we have freedom and security at the same time?” said Roxane Farmanfarmaian, lead scholar on the ESRC project and principal at the Centre of the International Studies of the Middle ... Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
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Study suggests lithium may decrease risk of developing dementia |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-suggests-lithium-may-decrease-risk-of-developing-dementia17 Mar 2022: Delaying the onset of dementia by just five years could reduce its prevalence and economic impact by as much as 40 percent. ... It’s been estimated that delaying the onset of dementia by just five years could reduce its prevalence and economic impact
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Great expectations in pregnancy research | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/great-expectations-in-pregnancy-research1 Feb 2008: Not only is there an emotional cost to families, but an economic assessment in the USA reported that the cumulative subsequent healthcare and social costs associated with one year’s worth ... Only by doing so can scientists hope to develop new
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Playtime with Dad may improve children’s self-control | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/playtime-with-dad-may-improve-childrens-self-control30 Jun 2020: The study also found some evidence that father-child play gradually increases through early childhood, then decreases during ‘middle childhood’ (ages 6 to 12).
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Pythagoras was wrong: there are no universal musical harmonies, study …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pythagoras-was-wrong-there-are-no-universal-musical-harmonies-study-finds27 Feb 2024: Quite a lot of pop music now tries to marry Western harmony with local melodies from the Middle East, India, and other parts of the world. ... Harrison and his collaborators are exploring different kinds of instruments and follow-up studies to test a
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Cambridge research centre puts people at the heart of AI | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-research-centre-puts-people-at-the-heart-of-ai12 Jul 2022: While AI has the potential to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems in healthcare, education, climate science and economic sustainability it will need to embrace its human origins
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The microbiologist tackling humanity’s next biggest killer
https://www.cam.ac.uk/this-cambridge-life/the-microbiologist-tackling-humanitys-next-biggest-killer17 Nov 2021: The vision is to create two-way alliances with scientists working in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (LMIC), where the burden of infectious disease is greatest. ... We still face big challenges in the form of economic and political will but I’m
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Risky decision-making essential to entrepreneurialism | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/risky-decision-making-essential-to-entrepreneurialism12 Nov 2008: To test their hypothesis, the scientists had 16 entrepreneurs from 'Silicon Fen' (the cluster of high-tech companies in and around Cambridge) and 17 managers complete a computerised neurocognitive assessment measuring ... this test, although -
CRASSH: convener and gateway to the humanities | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/crassh-convener-and-gateway-to-the-humanities17 Mar 2011: European Memory Studies, GreenBRIDGE (sustainable architecture), the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Network, and the Science, Technology and Bio-Social Studies Forum. ... Personhood and Paperwork in and after the Soviet Union; and, topical today, New
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