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Emissions from melting permafrost could cost $43 trillion |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/emissions-from-melting-permafrost-could-cost-43-trillion21 Sep 2015: to the end of the twenty-second century, on top of the damage already predicted by climate and economic models. ... Reference:. Hope, C. and Schaefer, K. ‘Economic impacts of carbon dioxide and methane released from thawing permafrost’. -
New partnerships for ‘low carbon cities’ in the UK and China |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/new-partnerships-for-low-carbon-cities-in-the-uk-and-china23 Oct 2015: The Cambridge project, led by Professor Alan Short of the Department of Architecture and also involves Professor Peter Guthrie from the Department of Engineering, will focus on how to deliver economic -
Genetic screening could improve breast cancer prevention | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/genetic-screening-could-improve-breast-cancer-prevention9 Apr 2015: The research, a collaboration of hundreds of research institutions led by the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Cancer Research, London, showed that a test for differences in 77 separate ... The researchers say it is important to work out how -
Topping out for new engineering hub at the University of Cambridge |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/topping-out-for-new-engineering-hub-at-the-university-of-cambridge22 Oct 2015: Technology we take for granted, including: Concorde ‘droop’ nose design, the microchips developed by ARM that now power 90% of the world’s mobile phones, and the pregnancy test. -
Mitochondrial disease expert to lead Department of Clinical…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/mitochondrial-disease-expert-to-lead-department-of-clinical-neurosciences23 Jul 2015: Professor Chinnery is currently Professor of Neurogenetics at Newcastle University, a post he has held since 2004. He is a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in -
Scientists grow ‘mini-lungs’ to aid the study of cystic fibrosis |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-grow-mini-lungs-to-aid-the-study-of-cystic-fibrosis20 Mar 2015: change. This technique allowed the researchers to show that the ‘mini-lungs’ could be used in principle to test potential new drugs: when a small molecule currently the subject of clinical -
Play matters! New centre will examine role of playfulness in learning …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/play-matters-new-centre-will-examine-role-of-playfulness-in-learning22 Oct 2015: Quality in learning means not just great test scores, but also building the skills that underpin learning throughout a lifetime. -
Cancer patients lose faith in healthcare system if referred late by…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cancer-patients-lose-faith-in-healthcare-system-if-referred-late-by-gp31 Jul 2015: Of the nearly 60,000 survey respondents diagnosed through their GP, almost a quarter (23 per cent) had been seen three or more times before being referred for cancer tests. ... When they occur, diagnostic delays are largely due to cancer symptoms being -
Silent flights: How owls could help make wind turbines and planes…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/silent-flights-how-owls-could-help-make-wind-turbines-and-planes-quieter22 Jun 2015: In wind tunnel tests, the treatment reduced the noise generated by a wind turbine blade by 10dB, without any appreciable impact on aerodynamics. ... The next step is to test the coating on a functioning wind turbine. -
New centre for biodiversity conservation named after Sir David…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/new-centre-for-biodiversity-conservation-named-after-sir-david-attenborough21 Apr 2015: The David Attenborough Building will become a focal point for research and practice to transform our understanding and the conservation of biodiversity. -
World’s protected natural areas receive eight billion visits a year | …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/worlds-protected-natural-areas-receive-eight-billion-visits-a-year24 Feb 2015: which this study shows would yield substantial economic return – as well as saving incalculably precious natural landscapes and species from destruction. ... While that may seem a lot of money, it’s a fraction of the economic benefit we get from -
Masters of the universe | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/masters-of-the-universe19 Jun 2015: This experiment will enable us to test our theory of gravity with much greater precision than ever before, and perhaps even show that our current theories need to be changed. ... This experiment will enable us to test our theory of gravity with much -
Cambridge conference on Colombia says education holds key to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-conference-on-colombia-says-education-holds-key-to-sustainable-peace30 Jun 2015: The seminar was co-organised by the Cambridge Peace and Education Research Group, the London School of Economics’ Colombian Society, Colombia’s Rodeemos el Diálogo, and the Educate for Dialogue society -
Mirage maker | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/mirage-maker30 Oct 2015: A few weeks ago, Tushita Mukhopadhyay – a chemist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – carefully packaged up five new materials and flew to the UK to test them on the -
Phone for a doctor | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/phone-for-a-doctor28 Oct 2015: Wareham and colleagues use a combination of a risk score that they have developed, which looks at factors such as age, sex and weight, and a simple blood test to identify ... These could even do away with the need to take regular blood finger-prick tests. -
Not a drop to drink | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/not-a-drop-to-drink19 Oct 2015: The project is part of the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation programme, which is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council and the UK’s -
Cambridge Judge Business School celebrates 25th anniversary with new…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-judge-business-school-celebrates-25th-anniversary-with-new-simon-sainsbury-centre26 Nov 2015: attracted worldwide attention; it found that increasing the economic power of women throughout society, rather than quotas, is the key factor in women reaching and staying on corporate boards. -
To the death | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/to-the-death13 Jul 2015: The slaughter that took place in the muddy trenches of the First World War eclipsed the aristocratic notion of duelling as a test of nerve and a clean way of settling -
Opinion: Why cats are fussy eaters but dogs will consume almost…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-why-cats-are-fussy-eaters-but-dogs-will-consume-almost-anything13 Nov 2015: To find out, Peihua Jiang, a molecular biologist at Monell, put cat taste buds to the test. -
Education that adds up | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/education-that-adds-up16 Oct 2015: Now the Centre has been awarded funding by the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to look at ways to improve the effectiveness of -
Earthquakes without frontiers | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/earthquakes-without-frontiers26 Oct 2015: With additional funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, EWF expanded to include social science and policy dimensions. -
Refugee camp entrepreneurship | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/refugee-camp-entrepreneurship17 Sep 2015: A paper from Cambridge researchers calls on governments and other policymakers to promote refugee-camp entrepreneurship in order to provide an economic and psychological boost to displaced people. ... The paper – entitled “Entrepreneurship and -
A world of science | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/a-world-of-science8 Oct 2015: His ground-breaking research uncovered the social and intellectual origins of these informants, and showed how networks of ‘go-betweens’ helped the British understand India’s politics, economic activities and culture. ... Every one of his -
Upside down and inside out | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/upside-down-and-inside-out27 Apr 2015: The images, of embryos of a green alga called Volvox, make an ideal test case to understand how a remarkably similar process works in early animal development. ... Using fluorescence microscopy to observe the Volvox embryos, the researchers were able to -
Let’s get statted | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/lets-get-statted3 Jun 2015: “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I’m not kidding,” Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google famously observed in -
Differences in brain structure and memory suggest adolescents may not …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/differences-in-brain-structure-and-memory-suggest-adolescents-may-not-grow-out-of-adhd27 Aug 2015: diagnosed with ADHD and 23 of the controls undertook a test of working memory inside the scanner. ... Even amongst the adolescent ADHD sample who passed the memory test, the scores were on average 6 percentage points less than controls. -
Counting on sheep | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/counting-on-sheep10 Jun 2015: “Shall we take one of the sheep for a walk?” asks Professor Jenny Morton before we head down to the farmyard. This seems a strange question at first: we’re all -
How to read a digital footprint | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/how-to-read-a-digital-footprint23 Jun 2015: His app, myPersonality, allowed users to complete a range of psychometric tests, get feedback on their scores and share it with friends. ... It went viral. By 2012, more than six million people had completed the test, with many users allowing researchers -
The Big Dating Game | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-big-dating-game9 Jun 2015: Everything that happens to you within the hospital – every test result, every diagnosis, every drug prescribed – is captured in an electronic record. -
Thinking inside the box | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/thinking-inside-the-box31 Mar 2015: It’s a common occurrence: when faced with a problem which is similar to one which has been faced before, most people will default to what worked in the past. -
The super-resolution revolution | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-super-resolution-revolution27 Feb 2015: There has been a revolution in optical microscopy and it’s been 350 years in the making. Ever since Robert Hooke published his Physiological Descriptions of -
Old drug performs new tricks | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/old-drug-performs-new-tricks21 Sep 2015: In the trial, it worked even better than average on patients whom tests showed had high salt levels. -
Music in the tree of life | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/music-in-the-tree-of-life18 Mar 2015: In what they believe is the first test case of this type of analysis, Howe, Windram and one of the UK’s leading early keyboard players, Professor Terence Charlston from the ... Even in this test case we found two main families that corresponded to -
A touch of frugal genius | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/a-touch-of-frugal-genius15 Oct 2015: Post economic crisis, Ford has launched innovation initiatives to become more agile in a future crisis. -
A whole host of options | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/a-whole-host-of-options9 Oct 2015: We now want to refine it and test it in mice and in fish, alongside a shortlist of around 30 other potential drugs,” he adds. -
Practice really does make perfect | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/practice-really-does-make-perfect8 Jan 2015: Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Plymouth University have shown that follow-through – such as when swinging a golf club or tennis racket – can -
Cause of galactic death: strangulation | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cause-of-galactic-death-strangulation13 May 2015: The researchers were then able to independently test their results by looking at the stellar age difference between star-forming and dead galaxies, independent of metal levels, and found an average -
Too exhausted to fight – and to do harm | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/too-exhausted-to-fight-and-to-do-harm29 Jun 2015: A test based on the concept is soon to enter the clinic, and we are exploring new treatments for autoimmunity based on manipulating T cell exhaustion. -
Large Hadron Collider restarts after two years | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/large-hadron-collider-restarts-after-two-years7 Apr 2015: The new run will subject the Standard Model of particle physics to its toughest tests yet, and may help identify some of the fundamental forces of nature that the Standard Model ... Detailed studies of the Higgs boson are also going to test our -
Maintaining healthy DNA delays menopause | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/maintaining-healthy-dna-delays-menopause28 Sep 2015: The findings, published today (September 28) in the journal Nature Genetics, suggest that the reproductive cells or ‘eggs’ in a woman’s ovaries (known as -
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. ... Where his creativity literally took off was in realising that to test the atmosphere for spores he had to -
Recalling memories may make us forget | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/recalling-memories-may-make-us-forget16 Mar 2015: The research, published today in Nature Neuroscience, is the first to isolate the adaptive forgetting mechanism in the human brain. The brain imaging study -
Keeping the supply chain flowing | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/keeping-the-supply-chain-flowing6 Oct 2015: In the UK, the government has placed manufacturing at the heart of plans for economic recovery. -
Greater understanding of polycystic ovary syndrome | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/greater-understanding-of-polycystic-ovary-syndrome29 Sep 2015: We recommend that new studies should be done to test whether more intensive efforts to reduce body weight and improve insulin resistance are effective in treating women with PCOS.”. -
Opinion: How free are we really? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-how-free-are-we-really30 Oct 2015: Meanwhile as we’ve seen with the hysteria over the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, his once rather widely accepted ideas about social and economic justice are shrilly denounced -
Healthcare at the touch of a finger | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/healthcare-at-the-touch-of-a-finger11 Mar 2015: mHealth Initiative to test the system with health workers in Gaibandha, Bangladesh. -
The British Academy welcomes new Fellows for 2015 | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-british-academy-welcomes-new-fellows-for-201516 Jul 2015: Professor Sanjeev Goyal – Professor of Economics and Fellow of Christ’s College. ... It funds research across the UK and in other parts of the world, in disciplines ranging from archaeology to economics, from psychology to history, and from -
Stirbitch: mapping the unmappable | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/stirbitch-mapping-the-unmappable16 Jan 2015: Here, for several centuries, an annual fair played a central role in the economic and cultural history of the east of England. -
Subterfuge, double agents and viruses | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/subterfuge-double-agents-and-viruses20 Feb 2015: To test whether the poxvirus proteins share a common ancestor, we systematically compared them with all the cellular pro-survival molecules that regulate apoptosis. -
Predators might not be dazzled by stripes | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/predators-might-not-be-dazzled-by-stripes12 Aug 2015: A total of 60 human participants played a game to test whether stripes influenced their perception of moving targets.
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