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Teaching machines to see: new smartphone-based system could…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/teaching-machines-to-see-new-smartphone-based-system-could-accelerate-development-of-driverless-cars21 Dec 2015: SegNet was primarily trained in highway and urban environments, so it still has some learning to do for rural, snowy or desert environments – although it has performed well in initial tests
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Flashmobs and flamenco: how Spain’s greatest artform became a tool…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/flashmobs-and-flamenco-how-spains-greatest-artform-became-a-tool-for-political-protest23 Oct 2015: Never more so than today. Spain has suffered immensely in the global economic crisis – especially Andalusia, the southernmost region of the country most associated with flamenco. ... Yet members remain committed to flamenco as a political weapon
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Study of half a million people reveals sex and job predict how many…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-of-half-a-million-people-reveals-sex-and-job-predict-how-many-autistic-traits-you-have3 Nov 2015: This allowed the research team to also test two factors that they predicted would not be linked to AQ: age and geographical region. ... Emily Ruzich said “I am pleased that such big data was available to test these questions.
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Opinion: Paying people to stay away is not always the best way to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-paying-people-to-stay-away-is-not-always-the-best-way-to-protect-watersheds24 Dec 2015: Such economic impacts are likely to worsen as the century progresses. ... This is the case of the Catskills watershed in New York, where environmentally sound economic development is incentivized.
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‘Pain sensing’ gene discovery could help in development of new…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pain-sensing-gene-discovery-could-help-in-development-of-new-methods-of-pain-relief25 May 2015: Pain perception is an evolutionarily-conserved warning mechanism that alerts us to dangers in the environment and to potential tissue damage. However, rare
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Two-thirds of studies on 'psychosocial' treatments fail to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/two-thirds-of-studies-on-psychosocial-treatments-fail-to-declare-conflicts-of-interest26 Nov 2015: Health services in many countries increasingly rely on prescribed 'psychosocial interventions': treatments that use counselling techniques to tackle mental
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Paying farmers to help the environment works, but ‘perverse’…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/paying-farmers-to-help-the-environment-works-but-perverse-subsidies-must-be-balanced9 Sep 2015: However, less than 1% goes towards mitigating the toll farming takes on the natural world – despite agriculture contributing more to environmental degradation than any other economic sector, say researchers.
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Every hour you spend in front of a screen is linked to poorer exam…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/every-hour-you-spend-in-front-of-a-screen-is-linked-to-poorer-exam-results4 Sep 2015: By the time they are teenagers, more than two-thirds of young people are not doing enough physical activity. Teenagers spend an average of eight hours every
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King’s College Chapel: an architectural masterpiece and the man who…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/kings-college-chapel-an-architectural-masterpiece-and-the-man-who-told-its-story16 Dec 2015: Saltmarsh was the perfect man for the task: he was an economic historian with a particular interest in the medieval world; he was a meticulous researcher; and he was a gifted
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“Never was so much owed by so many to so few”: Could phrases like…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/never-was-so-much-owed-by-so-many-to-so-few-could-phrases-like-this-hold-clues-about-universal16 Dec 2015: One solution is to study language properties that might give us a clue, and the Verb Second constraint seems to be one of the best examples available – a lens to test ... The researchers believe that the Verb Second constraint could be used to test
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Baboons prefer to spend time with others of the same age, status and…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/baboons-prefer-to-spend-time-with-others-of-the-same-age-status-and-even-personality13 May 2015: Essentially, it’s the same in baboons.”. To test for the personality traits of ‘boldness’ – essentially an assertive curiosity – the researchers planted unfamiliar foods on the edge of paths commonly used
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Cambridge announced as one of five key partners in new national Alan…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-announced-as-one-of-five-key-partners-in-new-national-alan-turing-institute28 Jan 2015: economic questions that are critical to making data science work in practice.
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Cambridge Drug Discovery Institute to fast-track development of new…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-drug-discovery-institute-to-fast-track-development-of-new-treatments-for-dementia16 Feb 2015: Dementia affects over 830,000 people in the UK and costs the UK economy £23 billion a year. Increasing political focus on improving the outlook for people with
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Decline in the number of males involved in reproduction during the…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/decline-in-the-number-of-males-involved-in-reproduction-during-the-period-of-global-growth17 Mar 2015: In a study published recently in Genome Research, scientists from University of Cambridge, Estonian Biocentre, University of Tartu, Arizona State University
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Opinion: How we built a robot that can evolve – and why it won’t take …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-how-we-built-a-robot-that-can-evolve-and-why-it-wont-take-over-the-world18 Dec 2015: The latest research on robots is often described as if it were a step on the inexorable march toward a robot apocalypse straight out of the Terminator films.
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The future of intelligence: Cambridge University launches new centre…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-future-of-intelligence-cambridge-university-launches-new-centre-to-study-ai-and-the-future-of3 Dec 2015: Human-level intelligence is familiar in biological “hardware” – it happens inside our skulls. Technology and science are now converging on a possible future
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'Mini bile ducts' help identify new drugs that could prevent…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mini-bile-ducts-help-identify-new-drugs-that-could-prevent-the-need-for-liver-transplantation16 Jul 2015: The researchers used their ‘miniature bile ducts’ to test new drugs for biliary disease, leading to the discovery that VX809 – an experimental compound originally designed to treat the effects of cystic
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Graphene means business – two-dimensional material moves from the lab …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/graphene-means-business-two-dimensional-material-moves-from-the-lab-to-the-uk-factory-floor6 Nov 2015: Our many partnerships with industry support the continued economic success of the region and the UK more broadly, and the Cambridge Graphene Centre is an important part of that – working with
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Pollution on the move – human activity in East Asia negatively…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pollution-on-the-move-human-activity-in-east-asia-negatively-affects-air-quality-in-remote-tropical31 Mar 2015: The researchers were initially looking for chemical compounds of natural origin: they wanted to test whether the oceans around Borneo were a source of bromine and chlorine, compounds which can affect
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“You need to ignore it, babe”: how mothers prepare young children for …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/you-need-to-ignore-it-babe-how-mothers-prepare-young-children-for-the-reality-of-racism19 Jan 2015: An in-depth study of mothers and young children living in multicultural areas of London found that many of the women interviewed had prepared children for
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