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The first 'climate smart' sovereign credit ratings
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/climatecreditratings18 Mar 2021: By comparison, the economic turmoil caused by the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in 48 sovereigns suffering downgrades by the three major agencies between January 2020 and last month. ... Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London
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Brand-new Design Tripos brings arts and science together in one…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/brand-new-design-tripos-brings-arts-and-science-together-in-one-degree1 Nov 2021: Studio work and practical skills, including drawing, writing, coding, and fabricating, will complement taught courses in the humanities, social and natural sciences, and mathematics - bringing historical, cultural, ecological and economic context.
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Whole genome sequencing increases diagnosis of rare disorders by…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/whole-genome-sequencing-increases-diagnosis-of-rare-disorders-by-nearly-a-third4 Nov 2021: We recommend that whole genome sequencing should be offered early and before invasive tests such as a muscle biopsy. ... Chinnery said: “These patients were referred because of a suspected mitochondrial disease and the conventional diagnostic tests are
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How mass testing helped limit the spread of COVID-19 at the…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/screeningprogramme1 Jun 2021: Over the study period, 50,376 swabs were screened, using only 16,945 tests. ... We’ve shown that it’s possible to do this at scale by pooling samples, making it logistically and economically viable, without compromising test performance.
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First spaceflight for Gates Cambridge Scholar
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/kaylabarron17 Dec 2021: In addition to exploring the Moon they will learn how to live and operate on the surface of another celestial body and test the technologies needed to send astronauts on missions
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University’s expertise advises on West Cambridge Site trial of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/universitys-expertise-advises-on-west-cambridge-site-trial-of-self-driving-shuttle27 May 2021: vehicles from the test track to the open road.
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Cambridge-led team developing a simulator to help reach net zero…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-led-team-developing-a-simulator-to-help-reach-net-zero-flight25 Aug 2021: The AIA is in partnership with HRH The Prince of Wales’s Sustainable Markets Initiative, The World Economic Forum, Cambridge Zero, MathWorks and SATAVIA, and is supported by industry advisors
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Bookings open for the first Cambridge Festival
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridgefestival22 Feb 2021: humanity’s most pressing issues, from pandemics, climate change and global economics, to human rights and the future of democracy.
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West Cambridge Innovation District will create new destination…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/west-cambridge-innovation-district-will-create-new-destination-quarter-and-put-the-science-on-show29 Jul 2021: The restyled site will build on Cambridge’s innovation success and support the region's economic recovery post-pandemic. ... The development of West Cambridge will support the region's economic recovery post-pandemic and nurture the entrepreneurial
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Korowai on TV: the naked truth
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/korowai20 Dec 2021: In reality, film crews completely warp the social and economic space.”.
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New results deal a blow to the theoretical sterile neutrino |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-results-deal-a-blow-to-the-theoretical-sterile-neutrino29 Oct 2021: Share. Published. 29 Oct 2021. Image. Teams prepare to move the MicroBooNE cryostat from DZero to the Liquid Argon Test Facility (LArTF), USA.
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Urban crime fell by over a third around the world during COVID-19…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/COVIDcrime2 Jun 2021: The research team found no overall relationship between measures such as school closures or economic support and crime rates during lockdowns.
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Cambridge Foundation Year offers new route to undergraduate study for …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-foundation-year-offers-new-route-to-undergraduate-study-for-educationally-and-socially13 Jan 2021: It is expected that the Foundation Year will further increase the proportion of Cambridge students from state schools, low progression postcodes and from areas of socio-economic deprivation.
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Artificial pancreas trialled for outpatients with type 2 diabetes for …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/artificial-pancreas-trialled-for-outpatients-with-type-2-diabetes-for-first-time4 Aug 2021: Diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure, accounting for just under a third (30%) of cases. As the number of people living with type 2 diabetes
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A mental health revolution
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/a-mental-health-revolution7 Oct 2021: Later, the invention of the iPad meant that specialised equipment and a trained professional to administer the tests were no longer required – the minimal instructions were incorporated into the test. ... Since August 2013, CANTAB and related tests
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Trinity Challenge announces inaugural winners | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/trinity-challenge-announces-inaugural-winners25 Jun 2021: Solution uses data from routine blood tests and powerful AI-based techniques to provide a ‘tsunami-like’ early warning system for new disease outbreaks. ... throughout the pandemic the rich data from 2.8 million full blood count tests.”.
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Running water
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/runningwater8 Nov 2021: I had a lightbulb moment. 3D printing would allow me to develop and test a new type of chlorine doser quickly – and cheaply.
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Professor Mary Beard's 'retirement present' will fund…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-mary-beards-retirement-present-will-fund-cambridge-classics-students-from-under14 May 2021: Foundation Year to further increase the proportion of Cambridge students from state schools, low progression postcodes and from areas of socio-economic deprivation.
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Safeguarding the wonder drugs
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/antibiotic-resistance22 Nov 2021: Professor Mark Holmes. Researchers were aware of a bacteria that looked like MRSA but which gave negative results with the tests available. ... This led to the discovery of the mecC resistance gene. As it turns out, the strain itself wasn’t new, but it
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Asymptomatic screening and genome sequencing help Cambridge…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/asymptomatic-screening-and-genome-sequencing-help-cambridge-understand-spread-of-sars-cov-2-among11 Jan 2021: Around 12,000 students living in College accommodation (80% of eligible students) signed up to the asymptomatic screening programme, which uses a pooled sample approach to reduce the number of tests ... In addition, the University offers tests to
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Bamboo bats... Howzat?!
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/bamboo-cricket-bats10 May 2021: Bamboo cricket bats are stronger, offer a better ‘sweet-spot’ and deliver more energy to the ball than those made from traditional willow, tests showed. ... Test match: Willow v Bamboo. In the nineteenth century, cricket bat makers experimented with
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Countdown to COP26
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cop2626 Oct 2021: But we also need to work this through our trade relationships, which are going to be absolutely crucial, given the degree of globalisation and interconnected economic activity that we need to
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Former coal mining communities have less faith in politics than other …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/former-coal-mining-communities-have-less-faith-in-politics-than-other-left-behind-areas20 Sep 2021: neighbourhoods. Residents of coalfield areas are less likely than their socio-economic counterparts to have voted in the last election, are much less likely to say they intend to vote in ... For people in communities that saw sudden and rapid economic
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Gates Cambridge class of 2021
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/gatesclassof202114 Apr 2021: the economic havoc caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. ... violence, or economic scarcity.
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Can federated learning save the world? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/can-federated-learning-save-the-world10 May 2021: Artificial intelligence models are used increasingly widely in today’s world. Many carry out natural language processing tasks – such as language translation,
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Flu season 2021: how worried should we be?
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/influenza12 Oct 2021: It’s a significant economic and health burden: with the exception of the last two years there’s been a flu epidemic every single year in the UK.
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ENTERPRISING MINDS
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/enterprisingminds20 Oct 2021: His management training has included the Royal College of Art, London School of Economics, MIT Sloan, Harvard Business School and INSEAD (Singapore).
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Scientists reverse age-related memory loss in mice | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-reverse-age-related-memory-loss-in-mice22 Jul 2021: To do this, the team looked at 20-month old mice – considered very old – and using a suite of tests showed that the mice exhibited deficits in their memory compared to ... For example, one test involved seeing whether mice recognised an object.
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European summer droughts since 2015 unprecedented in past two…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/europeandrought15 Mar 2021: Reconstructed central European summer variability over the past 2,110 years. Recent summer droughts and heatwaves in Europe have had devastating ecological and economic consequences, which will worsen as the global
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These birds will soon go extinct. But their disappearance need not be …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/climatic-lifeboats19 May 2021: But if they do go extinct in the next fifty years, they are at least a useful test case to validate climate models that inform a lot of conservation work,” said
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‘Magnetic graphene’ forms a new kind of magnetism | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/magnetic-graphene-forms-a-new-kind-of-magnetism8 Feb 2021: had to develop and test our own new techniques to make it possible.”.
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European lakes potential hotspots of microplastic pollution
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/microplastic-pollution14 Sep 2021: Future studies are needed to isolate microorganisms from the natural environment and test their ability to degrade microplastics and fibres.
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Ringfence funding for ‘social plumbing’ to level up the UK
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/socialplumbing11 May 2021: We know that levels of community provision deliver a wide range of economic and social benefits.
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Ageing cuttlefish can remember the details of last week’s dinner |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ageing-cuttlefish-can-remember-the-details-of-last-weeks-dinner18 Aug 2021: The old cuttlefish were just as good as the younger ones in the memory task – in fact, many of the older ones did better in the test phase. ... Cuttlefish have short lifespans – most live until around two years old – making them a good subject to
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Gone to the dogs
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/chernobyldogs25 May 2021: This research was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council UK.
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Q&A with Sharon Peacock, coronavirus variant hunter | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/qa-with-sharon-peacock-coronavirus-variant-hunter22 Feb 2021: Laboratory testing for COVID-19 using the so-called PCR test in the UK is roughly divided into two testing pathways.
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Rapid transition to a net zero world
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/rapid-transition28 Oct 2021: energy transition and local economic development.
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Transcribing together
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/oliver-rackham23 Jul 2021: He would test us: 'Why are the primroses and bluebells on the woodland floor growing in lines?' We’d um and ah, usually in vain.
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Cambridge Dictionary names 'perseverance' Word of the Year…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-dictionary-names-perseverance-word-of-the-year-202117 Nov 2021: Research shows that many people learn new vocabulary more effectively when they have a record of it, so they can go back to study and test themselves.
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Pollinators: first global risk index for species declines and effects …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/pollinatorsriskindex16 Aug 2021: Dr Tom Breeze, co-author and Ecological Economics Research Fellow at the University of Reading, said: "This study highlights just how much we still don’t know about pollinator decline and
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Cambridge researchers awarded the Millennium Technology Prize |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-researchers-awarded-the-millennium-technology-prize18 May 2021: The technology has dramatically improved our understanding of the genetic basis of many cancers and is often used both for clinical tests for early detection and diagnostics both from tumours and
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Fighting anxiety with science: exploring the links between…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/fightinganxiety25 Jun 2021: Engineering concerns itself with the design of different structures, using specialised mathematical models to test potential solutions to a given problem.
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Switching off heart protein could protect against heart failure |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/switching-off-heart-protein-could-protect-against-heart-failure27 May 2021: It’s early days, and we now need to test the longer-term effects of switching off MARK4. ... These findings are a positive step forward. Further research is needed to refine and test drugs that can target MARK4 before we’ll see them given to people
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Vice-Chancellor’s Awards highlight research impact and engagement…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/vice-chancellors-awards-20217 Oct 2021: Despite ongoing challenges, our academics have continued to undertake research with social, cultural and economic impact, locally and across the globe.”. ... economic, social and cultural impact from, and engagement with, research.
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Study reveals ‘drastic changes’ to daily routines during UK lockdowns …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-reveals-drastic-changes-to-daily-routines-during-uk-lockdowns3 Nov 2021: Faculty of Economics.
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China's forgotten heroes
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/chinas-forgotten-heroes4 Nov 2021: severe economic difficulty.
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Be prepared: it’s impossible to predict an earthquake
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/earthquakes-without-frontiers9 Nov 2021: In earthquake-prone developed countries like Japan and New Zealand, even severe earthquakes cause very few deaths – they are mainly stories of economic loss. ... In 2012 they leveraged this relationship to establish ‘Earthquakes without Frontiers’
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Climate change may have driven the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/climate-change-may-have-driven-the-emergence-of-sars-cov-25 Feb 2021: COVID-19 economic recovery programmes. ... The COVID-19 pandemic has caused tremendous social and economic damage. Governments must seize the opportunity to reduce health risks from infectious diseases by taking decisive action to mitigate climate change,
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Journeys of discovery: Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/journeysofdiscovery-rapidgenomesequencing18 May 2021: The acid test, of course, is how you feel about it the next day.”.
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‘Generation lockdown’ needs targeted help-to-work policies – global…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/generation-lockdown-needs-targeted-help-to-work-policies-global-report21 Oct 2021: However, the researchers say that only a few nations deployed policy responses tailored to the specific needs of young people affected by the economic fallout of COVID-19. ... people who have faced 18 months of social and economic chaos,” he added.
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