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12 Aug 2015: Fumiya Iida. Researchers led by the University of Cambridge have built a mother robot that can independently build its own children and test which one does best; and then use the ... The disadvantage is that it takes time: each child took the robot about

24 Jun 2015: His lectures set complex scientific material within a rich social, economic and cultural context, in a way that is accessible to students who have typically not studied any humanities since GCSE.

16 Jun 2015: If his emerging results are correct, then they have the potential to transform not only the most important chapter in our social and economic history – the industrial revolution (so-called) – but ... Much of what we know about social and economic

14 Mar 2015: Be in no doubt: the cuts to research and innovation will damage Europe’s economic future. ... We cannot let political short-sightedness stand in the way of our continued economic recovery.

21 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’.

18 Jun 2015: The education of girls is transformative. It is a moral duty and also an economic imperative. ... That has to be our starting point. But we must go beyond and make explicit the link between girls’ education and economic opportunity.

9 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

26 Mar 2015: Professor Gilbertson is currently Scientific Director, Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center and holds the Lillian R. Cannon endowed Chair at St Jude

23 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

20 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

22 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.

31 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

22 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.

22 Oct 2015: Quality in learning means not just great test scores, but also building the skills that underpin learning throughout a lifetime.

24 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

19 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

21 Apr 2015: The David Attenborough Building will become a focal point for research and practice to transform our understanding and the conservation of biodiversity.

30 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

28 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.

26 Jun 2015: The Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre is a partnership between Cancer Research UK, the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS

13 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

30 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

19 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

16 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

26 Oct 2015: With additional funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, EWF expanded to include social science and policy dimensions.

26 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.

13 Nov 2015: To find out, Peihua Jiang, a molecular biologist at Monell, put cat taste buds to the test.

4 Feb 2015: Despite their red-brick finish, the corridors of the Institute of Astronomy can seem more like an art gallery than a research centre, so beautiful are the

17 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

8 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

27 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

27 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.

23 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

9 Jun 2015: Everything that happens to you within the hospital – every test result, every diagnosis, every drug prescribed – is captured in an electronic record.

18 Aug 2015: We all feel breathless from time to time: we’ve run for the bus, we’ve climbed a steep hill, we’ve cycled quickly to a meeting we’re late for. For some people,

9 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.

21 Sep 2015: In the trial, it worked even better than average on patients whom tests showed had high salt levels.

18 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

15 Oct 2015: Post economic crisis, Ford has launched innovation initiatives to become more agile in a future crisis.

29 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.

27 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

13 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

7 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

28 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

11 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

6 Oct 2015: In the UK, the government has placed manufacturing at the heart of plans for economic recovery.

2 Jul 2015: The research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

30 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

11 Mar 2015: mHealth Initiative to test the system with health workers in Gaibandha, Bangladesh.

16 Jan 2015: Here, for several centuries, an annual fair played a central role in the economic and cultural history of the east of England.