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Inside the mind of a young person | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/inside-the-mind-of-a-young-person15 Nov 2018: Read more here.
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Restoring Europe’s endangered landscapes for life | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/restoring-europes-endangered-landscapes-for-life9 Oct 2018: Provide sustainable cultural, social and economic benefits to people. Included in the initial group of ELP-funded projects are plans to return predatory sandbar sharks and Mediterranean monk seals to the ... Demonstrating to decision-makers the
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3D-printed robot hand ‘plays’ the piano | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/3d-printed-robot-hand-plays-the-piano19 Dec 2018: Piano playing is an ideal test for these passive systems, as it’s a complex and nuanced challenge requiring a significant range of behaviours in order to achieve different playing styles,”
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How emotions shape our work life | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/how-emotions-shape-our-work-life18 Jun 2018: Menges saw this at first hand when he studied the impact of the economic crisis of 2008–2009.
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The future of UK universities | Vice-Chancellor's blog |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/the-future-of-uk-universities-vice-chancellors-blog16 Mar 2018: Reducing students to mere consumers only makes sense if the value of universities is simply economic.
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Cambridge in the 2019 New Year honours list | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-in-the-2019-new-year-honours-list28 Dec 2018: Professor David Klenerman, FRS was knighted for Services to Science and for the Development of High Speed DNA Sequencing Technology. Professor Klenerman said:
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The Cambridge Series at Hay Festival | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/public-engagement/the-cambridge-series-at-hay-festival20 Mar 2018: Emma Glennon is an infectious disease epidemiologist who examines why new diseases emerge, working at the intersections of ecology, data science, and the social and economic determinants of disease. -
Mend the gap: solving the UK’s productivity puzzle | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/mend-the-gap-solving-the-uks-productivity-puzzle28 Jun 2018: The productivity gap is one of the most serious and vexing economic problems facing the government of the day, and Brexit is adding uncertainty to the mix. ... She’s working with colleagues from universities around the UK as part of the Productivity
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Cambridge Festival of Ideas opens for bookings | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-festival-of-ideas-opens-for-bookings24 Sep 2018: From economics: in Trade wars: deal or no deal an expert panel will discuss what the likely impact of trade wars is and how the tension between protectionism and free trade
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Ely’s new cathedral (of books) opens for business | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/elys-new-cathedral-of-books-opens-for-business27 Jun 2018: The first book placed into the store was Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: the nearly definitive edition, introduced by Richard Dawkins and
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Cambridge in the 2018 New Year Honours List | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-in-the-2018-new-year-honours-list1 Jan 2018: They include Oxford professor of economic history Jane Humphries (CBE), Hay Festival director Peter Florence (CBE), and CEO of DeepMind Dr Demis Hassabis (CBE).
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Zero gravity graphene promises success in space | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/zero-gravity-graphene-promises-success-in-space31 Jan 2018: The experiments they conducted were designed to test graphene’s potential in cooling systems for satellites. ... After promising results in laboratory tests, the graphene-coated wicks were tested in space-like conditions onboard a Zero-G parabolic
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Engineering artistry
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/engineering-artistry-photo-competition-201820 Nov 2018: The above picture shows the aftermath of multiple wind tunnel tests where the extra paint has been blown onto a catch-all splatterboard.
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Study unearths Britain’s first speech therapists | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-unearths-britains-first-speech-therapists22 Oct 2018: Until now, historians had assumed that John Thelwall became Britain’s first speech therapist in the early nineteenth century.* But Cambridge historian
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Conservationists gather to mark International Women's Day |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/conservationists-gather-to-mark-international-womens-day9 Mar 2018: The event, jointly organised by the Museum and the Cambridge Conservation Forum’s Women in Conservation Leadership Network, was held to mark International
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Brexit: the three transition options open to the UK | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/brexit-the-three-transition-options-open-to-the-uk25 Oct 2018: future economic relationship can only be agreed once the UK leaves. ... The most obvious way to avoid a backstop would be to keep the UK in transition unless and until a new economic partnership between the UK and the EU was agreed
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The boss of me: myths and truths of self-employment | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-boss-of-me-myths-and-truths-of-self-employment20 Jun 2018: Yet the available evidence from a number of economic contexts suggests that, particularly for young people, self-employment is often a highly vulnerable labour market status in terms of the levels ... But many governments continue to take cues from the
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The stresses and strains of work and unemployment | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-stresses-and-strains-of-work-and-unemployment26 Jun 2018: Business leaders are beginning to pay attention. In an article earlier this year following the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Clifton Leaf, Editor-in-Chief at the influential business ... As part of her mandate with the World Economic Forum
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The ‘brain’ that’s helping reduce carbon emissions | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-brain-thats-helping-reduce-carbon-emissions6 Aug 2018: In Singapore, it’s easier to see the impact that certain changes can have on the carbon footprint of the whole country – it’s an ideal test bed for researchers.
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Managed hunting can help maintain animal populations | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/managed-hunting-can-help-maintain-animal-populations21 May 2018: The international team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL),
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AI system may accelerate search for cancer discoveries | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ai-system-may-accelerate-search-for-cancer-discoveries27 Nov 2018: The system, called LION LBD and developed by computer scientists and cancer researchers at the University of Cambridge, has been designed to assist scientists
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Cambridge to appoint DeepMind Chair of Machine Learning | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-to-appoint-deepmind-chair-of-machine-learning24 Jul 2018: The interdisciplinary environment in the University will help the development of ethical and sustainable AI-based solutions to complex social, economic and environmental challenges.”.
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Cambridge and LMU announce plans for strategic partnership |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-and-lmu-announce-plans-for-strategic-partnership29 May 2018: The partnership will be cross-disciplinary, covering broad areas in the Humanities and Cultural Studies, Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, as well as Medicine, and will develop over the
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Greenhouse gas ‘feedback loop’ discovered in freshwater lakes |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/greenhouse-gas-feedback-loop-discovered-in-freshwater-lakes4 May 2018: To test how organic matter affects methane emissions, the scientists took lake sediment and added three common types of plant debris: deciduous trees that shed leaves annually, evergreen pine-shedding coniferous
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Epic issues: epic poetry from the dawn of modernity | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/epic-issues-epic-poetry-from-the-dawn-of-modernity2 Aug 2018: Whatever the Romans did for us, their reputation as a civilising force who brought order to the western world has, in the public imagination, stood the test of time remarkably well.
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“Little robots”: behind the scenes at an academy school | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/little-robots-behind-the-scenes-at-an-academy-school11 Apr 2018: ‘Structure liberates’: the ethos behind one of England’s flagship academy schools. Designed as an engine of social mobility, this school drills ‘urban
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Low-cost AI heart monitor developed by Cambridge start-up |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/low-cost-ai-heart-monitor-developed-by-cambridge-start-up11 Sep 2018: In 2017, the company secured funding to build and test 100 prototypes of the new heart monitor and to extend its AI capability.
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Making sense of cancer’s ‘big data’ problem to revolutionise patient…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/making-sense-of-cancers-big-data-problem-to-revolutionise-patient-care10 Jul 2018: Blood tests, biopsies, medical imaging, and genetic tests are a routine part of current cancer care; however, it is not always clear which of these increasingly large datasets are most important ... The researchers involved in these studies plan to use
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Cambridge receives £100 million for major new children’s hospital |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-receives-ps100-million-for-major-new-childrens-hospital10 Dec 2018: Built on land adjacent to Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie Hospitals, the children’s hospital will bring together some of the world’s top scientists to explore new
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Children of the city: tackling violence in the 21st century |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/children-of-the-city-tackling-violence-in-the-21st-century6 Nov 2018: READ THE STORY HERE. Read more about our research on the topic of children in the University's research magazine; download a pdf; view on Issuu.
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Research shows first land plants were parasitised by microbes |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/research-shows-first-land-plants-were-parasitised-by-microbes4 Apr 2018: To test this, we first wanted to see if Phytophthora could infect and complete its life cycle in a liverwort.".
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Legislating labour in the long run – how worker rights help economies …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/legislating-labour-in-the-long-run-how-worker-rights-help-economies12 Jul 2018: Now, a decade on from a global economic crash, and the mood music may again be changing. ... In fact, the team found small but positive correlations between stronger protective legislation and beneficial social and economic outcomes.
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Studies raise questions over how epigenetic information is inherited…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/studies-raise-questions-over-how-epigenetic-information-is-inherited30 Oct 2018: Using a set of behavioural tests, the team showed that specific effects on the resulting offspring mediated by long RNA included risk-taking, increased insulin sensitivity and overeating, whereas small RNA
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New Cambridge institute to tackle policy challenges in our age of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/new-cambridge-institute-to-tackle-policy-challenges-in-our-age-of-disruption16 Apr 2018: the world’s citizens, the economic and political odds are stacked against them.”. ... Cambridge must take a lead in bringing its unique breadth and depth of expertise to respond to social, political and economic conditions.
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Gates Scholar Melisa Basol on inoculating against fake news |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gates-scholar-melisa-basol-on-inoculating-against-fake-news11 Dec 2018: For her MPhil she looked at attitudes towards immigration and whether these could be changed and people could be protected from misinformation that posited that immigrants posed an economic threat to
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Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/potassium-gives-perovskite-based-solar-cells-an-efficiency-boost21 Mar 2018: The perovskite and potassium devices showed good stability in tests, and were 21.5% efficient at converting light into electricity, which is similar to the best perovskite-based solar cells and
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Scientists measure severity of drought during the Maya collapse |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-measure-severity-of-drought-during-the-maya-collapse2 Aug 2018: And while the Maya people survived beyond this period, their political and economic power was depleted.
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Scientists reveal plan to target the cause of Alzheimer’s disease |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-reveal-plan-to-target-the-cause-of-alzheimers-disease24 Sep 2018: Academics at the University of Cambridge and at Lund University in Sweden have devised the first strategy to ‘go after’ the cause of the devastating disease,
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‘Carbon bubble’ coming that could wipe trillions from the global…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/carbon-bubble-coming-that-could-wipe-trillions-from-the-global-economy-study4 Jun 2018: The study repeatedly ran simulations to gauge the outcomes of numerous combinations of global economic and environmental change. ... Our results show this is no longer the case.”. However, one of the most alarming economic possibilities suggested by
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Low-cost plastic sensors could monitor a range of health conditions | …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/low-cost-plastic-sensors-could-monitor-a-range-of-health-conditions22 Jun 2018: Initial tests of the sensors were used to measure levels of lactate, which is useful in fitness applications or to monitor patients following surgery. ... time. The developed sensor technology can be used with these models to test the potency or toxicity
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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast: what’s next for thinking…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/artificial-intelligence-is-growing-up-fast-whats-next-for-thinking-machines6 Feb 2018: To pass the Turing Test, a computer must fool a human into believing it is human. ... Hernandez-Orallo sees a very practical application of such tests: the future job market.
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Releasing the imagination: the University of Cambridge Primary School …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/releasing-the-imagination-the-university-of-cambridge-primary-school2 Nov 2018: The University of Cambridge Primary School is committed to improving education for all primary children, everywhere. READ THE STORY HERE Also available:
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Young children use physics, not previous rewards, to learn about…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/young-children-use-physics-not-previous-rewards-to-learn-about-tools23 Feb 2018: In this test, some of the tools were ‘functional’ and some ‘non-functional’.
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Helping police make custody decisions using artificial intelligence | …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/helping-police-make-custody-decisions-using-artificial-intelligence26 Feb 2018: in Durham to test the use of Checkpoint among those forecast as moderate risk.
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Mitochondrial diseases could be treated with gene therapy, study…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mitochondrial-diseases-could-be-treated-with-gene-therapy-study-suggests24 Sep 2018: To test an experimental gene therapy treatment, which has so far only been tested in human cells grown in petri dishes in a lab, the researchers used a mouse model of
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Many cases of dementia may arise from non-inherited DNA ‘spelling…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/many-cases-of-dementia-may-arise-from-non-inherited-dna-spelling-mistakes15 Oct 2018: To test their hypothesis, the researchers examined 173 tissue samples from the Newcastle Brain Tissue Resource, part of the MRC’s UK Brain Banks Network.
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Six Cambridge academics elected to prestigious British Academy…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/six-cambridge-academics-elected-to-prestigious-british-academy-fellowship20 Jul 2018: 1947. Professor Brian Cheffins (Faculty of Law) is to be elected to the fellowship in recognition of his work on the application of economic analysis to the area of company law.
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Ebola and Lassa fever targeted by new vaccine trial and improved…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ebola-and-lassa-fever-targeted-by-new-vaccine-trial-and-improved-surveillance25 Sep 2018: response. Using monoclonal antibodies – copies of antibodies taken from survivors of the target diseases – they can then test whether the body can effectively eliminate these fake viruses, leading to protection. ... They will then carry out toxicity
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New brain mapping technique highlights relationship between…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-brain-mapping-technique-highlights-relationship-between-connectivity-and-iq2 Jan 2018: This could take us closer to being able to get an idea of intelligence from brain scans, rather than having to rely on IQ tests. ... rely on IQ tests,” says Professor Ed Bullmore, Head of Psychiatry at Cambridge.
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Genome-editing tool could increase cancer risk in cells, say…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/genome-editing-tool-could-increase-cancer-risk-in-cells-say-researchers11 Jun 2018: The team, led by Professor Jussi Taipale, now at the Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge, found that CRISPR-Cas9 triggers a mechanism designed to protect
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