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Fingerprinting rare earth elements from the air | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/fingerprinting-rare-earth-elements-from-the-air1 Jul 2016: However, to be extractable in an economic way, they need to be concentrated into veins or sediments.” It’s the identification of these concentrations that is critical for the future security ... This collection contains specimens of minerals and -
Urgent action needed to close UK languages gap | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/urgent-action-needed-to-close-uk-languages-gap24 May 2016: The findings are included in a new report, The Value of Languages, published by the University of Cambridge this week, after wide-ranging consultation with -
Sir James Dyson opens invention powerhouse at the University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/sir-james-dyson-opens-invention-powerhouse-at-the-university-of-cambridge9 May 2016: The adjoining Dyson Centre for Engineering Design enables students to express their creative talents and test their engineering skills using high-tech and diverse machining and prototyping equipment. -
New Cambridge centre sets out to prove we are not in a “post-truth”…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/new-cambridge-centre-sets-out-to-prove-we-are-not-in-a-post-truth-society1 Nov 2016: Professor Spiegelhalter has other examples of the use of evidence in medical stories in his sight: “Take, for instance, the recent media stories about a new test for Down’s syndrome -
Opinion: Why Ethiopia is on track to become Africa’s industrial…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-why-ethiopia-is-on-track-to-become-africas-industrial-powerhouse23 Jun 2016: Except for Rwanda, Ethiopia is the only African country whose economic growth has been consistently high for more than a decade without relying on a natural resource boom. ... Additionally, government provision of transport and energy has been crucial. -
Debt level analysis could help investors make sharper choices about…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/debt-level-analysis-could-help-investors-make-sharper-choices-about-real-estate15 Jun 2016: These stocks are often considered to be low-risk, because they typically generate high dividends for investors and used to be only moderately affected during periods of economic turmoil. ... The more indebted the firm is, they suggest, the less robust -
Record-breaking year in philanthropic support for Cambridge…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/record-breaking-year-in-philanthropic-support-for-cambridge-celebrated-in-vice-chancellors-1-october1 Oct 2016: Global Development Council, Chief Economic Advisor for Allianz, and writes regularly for Bloomberg, the Financial Times and Project Syndicate. ... Dr El-Erian is honorary fellow and alumnus of Queens’ (Economics, 1977), a board member of Cambridge -
Cutting welfare to protect the economy ignores lessons of history,…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cutting-welfare-to-protect-the-economy-ignores-lessons-of-history-researchers-claim2 Dec 2016: continuation of those existing policies, which have reduced welfare spending overall in the name of economic austerity. ... Overall, it facilitated the most sustained period of rising economic prosperity in the nation’s history,” the authors observe. -
Elephant poaching costs African economies US $25 million per year in…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/elephant-poaching-costs-african-economies-us-25-million-per-year-in-lost-tourism-revenue1 Nov 2016: Our research now shows that investing in elephant conservation is actually smart economic policy for many African countries,” said Dr. ... Dr. Brendan Fisher, an economist at University of Vermont’s Gund Institute for Ecological Economics. -
Cambridge has waived application fees for graduate students from most …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-has-waived-application-fees-for-graduate-students-from-most-african-countries26 Oct 2016: It is amplified by the ‘Africa Rising’ narrative, and by the resoluteness of African growth in the face of an economic downturn. -
Artificial pancreas trial in young children with diabetes receives…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/artificial-pancreas-trial-in-young-children-with-diabetes-receives-eu4-6millon-grant-from-european5 Sep 2016: Type 1 diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in children; around one in 4,000 children under 14 years of age is diagnosed with the disease each -
University of Cambridge breaks its early stage investment record for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/university-of-cambridge-breaks-its-early-stage-investment-record-for-third-consecutive-year27 Jan 2016: This was the fourth year of operation for the Enterprise Fund, which was announced as part of the SEIS programme in the government’s 2012 budget, established to stimulate economic growth. -
Smarter than the average bird? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/smarter-than-the-average-bird15 Jun 2016: In two of the tests she conducted, grackles showed they were able to problem solve. ... The second, more complex challenge, was a problem-solving test called Aesop’s Fable. -
Opinion: Thirty years on as 'new Cold War' looms, US and…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-thirty-years-on-as-new-cold-war-looms-us-and-russia-should-remember-the-rekyjavik-summit21 Oct 2016: In what looks very like a tit-for-tat downgrading of bilateral relations, Russia and America have traded diplomatic insults in recent weeks over nuclear weapons, geopolitics and economics, prompting speculation ... David Reynolds, Professor of -
California’s sudden oak death epidemic now ‘unstoppable’ and new…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/californias-sudden-oak-death-epidemic-now-unstoppable-and-new-epidemics-must-be-managed-earlier2 May 2016: Sudden oak death – caused by Phytophthora ramorum, a fungus-like pathogen related to potato blight – has killed millions of trees over hundreds of square -
Opinion: How Davos power brokers can start tackling major…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-how-davos-power-brokers-can-start-tackling-major-environmental-risks21 Jan 2016: The World Economic Forum (WEF) published its annual Global Risks Report in the run up to its annual meeting in Davos. -
The amazing axon adventure | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-amazing-axon-adventure5 Feb 2016: What we’re trying to do is to take biology and put it into computers so that we can really test it.”. -
Man on a mission to beat cancer | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/man-on-a-mission-to-beat-cancer14 Nov 2016: The team are also developing tests for circulating tumour DNA. It’s now known that DNA isn’t present just in cells: it floats around the bloodstream. ... Imagine a child going into a clinic for a five-year checkup, and having a blood test which -
Keeping patients safe in hospital | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/keeping-patients-safe-in-hospital15 Nov 2016: There’s a danger that they tend to encourage effort substitution – what people often refer to as ‘teaching to the test’,” explains Dixon-Woods. ... Medical science tends to prioritise trials and particular types of evidence, whereas engineering -
A very hairy story | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/a-very-hairy-story7 Nov 2016: In the wake of the Reformation, people were expected to comply with new rules on dress – but, as always, there were some who were determined to test the limits of authority. -
Being overweight linked to poorer memory | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/being-overweight-linked-to-poorer-memory25 Feb 2016: and poorer performance on a test of episodic memory. ... The participants took part in a memory test known as the ‘Treasure-Hunt Task’, where they were asked to hide items around complex scenes (for example, a desert with palm trees) -
Dementia: Catching the memory thief | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/dementia-catching-the-memory-thief21 Sep 2016: And this is still happening,” says Vendruscolo. “Companies are still putting small molecules into clinical trials that, when we test them using our methods, we find stand no chance.”. -
How does your smart city grow? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/how-does-your-smart-city-grow17 Jun 2016: Infrastructure, both existing and future, is of paramount importance for supporting economic growth and productivity. ... Infrastructure, both existing and future, is of paramount importance for supporting economic growth and productivity – and so we -
Opinion: Autumn Statement 2016: experts respond | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-autumn-statement-2016-experts-respond24 Nov 2016: A damp squib: economic policy needed a reboot and instead it got a light makeover. ... Michael White, Director, Real Estate Economics and Investment Research Group, Nottingham Trent University. -
Farming at nanoscale dimensions | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/farming-at-nanoscale-dimensions18 Mar 2016: This process has worked successfully since the 1950s, and scientists have even demonstrated the first working test chips with features approaching seven nanometres, the equivalent of placing more than 20 billion -
John Maynard Keynes: great economist, poor currency trader |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/john-maynard-keynes-great-economist-poor-currency-trader14 Jan 2016: The findings are forthcoming in the Journal of Economic History, in a study co-authored by Olivier Accominotti from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and David Chambers of ... In his currency trading, Keynes relied heavily on his own -
Larger brain size linked to longer life in deer | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/larger-brain-size-linked-to-longer-life-in-deer14 Dec 2016: The researchers, based at the University of Cambridge's Zoology Department and Edinburgh University's Institute of Evolutionary Biology, wanted to test if they could find more direct genetic or -
Interdisciplinary Research Centres | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/research-at-cambridge/interdisciplinary-research-centres3 Oct 2016: Bringing together established areas of research excellence across a wide range of disciplines to drive the underpinning research base of data science and address challenging economic and societal issues. -
Sex and the brain: fruitless research? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/sex-and-the-brain-fruitless-research2 Jun 2016: The sex life of the fruit fly is a simple affair. If a fly smells male pheromones, regardless of whether it is a male or a female fly, its response is clear -
Uncovering the afterlife of ancient Egypt | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/uncovering-the-afterlife-of-ancient-egypt25 Feb 2016: A coffin artisan in ancient Egypt had to deal creatively with many practical problems and sometimes restrictions on materials available because of the economic or political climate. -
Talk with Your Hands: a Cambridge Shorts film | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/talk-with-your-hands-a-cambridge-shorts-film18 Nov 2016: Talk with Your Hands: Communicating across the Sensory Spectrum opens with Hayden Dahmm speaking to camera. He is studying engineering and he’s blind. One of -
Pain in the machine: a Cambridge Shorts film | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/pain-in-the-machine-a-cambridge-shorts-film2 Nov 2016: Pain is vital: it is the mechanism that protects us from harming ourselves. If you put your finger into a flame, a signal travels up your nervous system to -
Man v fish in the Amazon rainforest | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/man-v-fish-in-the-amazon-rainforest11 Nov 2016: She says: “I’m interested in the relationship between people’s practical economic lives and how they see the universe. -
Education and the brain: what happens when children learn? |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/education-and-the-brain-what-happens-when-children-learn10 Feb 2016: Tests carried out on toddlers reveal that something quite remarkable happens in child development between the ages of two and five – a stage identified by both educationalists and neuroscientists as critical ... In an experiment designed to identify -
Going green: why don't we all do it? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/going-green-why-dont-we-all-do-it10 Jun 2016: Fascinated to find the factors at play, Fuerst and his colleague Ante Busic-Sontic started supplementing their economic models with insights derived from psychology. -
Media fuelling rising hostility towards Muslims in Britain |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/media-fuelling-rising-hostility-towards-muslims-in-britain28 Apr 2016: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). -
Internet censorship: making the hidden visible | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/internet-censorship-making-the-hidden-visible14 Oct 2016: For all the controversy it caused, Fitna is not a great film. The 17-minute short, by the Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, was a way for him to -
Why be human when you can be otherkin? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/why-be-human-when-you-can-be-otherkin16 Jul 2016: In May thousands of people watched a documentary called The Secret Life of the Human Pups. The film accompanied Spot and friends (men who dress as dogs) as -
Waterworld: can we learn to live with flooding? | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/waterworld-can-we-learn-to-live-with-flooding3 Jun 2016: The ‘flood footprint’ of the 2012 ‘Toon Monsoon’ caused around £129 million in direct damages and £102 million in indirect damages, rippling to economic sectors far beyond the physical location of ... As a case study, Barsley is using the -
Opinion: There’s no such thing as a natural-born gambler | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-natural-born-gambler22 Apr 2016: Simple. We have money and a stratified society with a lot of economic inequality and they didn’t. ... We have gone through fits and spurts of gambling, but probably the most important was in the 17th century, when mercantilism upset the economic order -
Wash cycle: making organs fit for transplantation | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/wash-cycle-making-organs-fit-for-transplantation20 Jul 2016: The Department is in the process of recruiting 400 patients for a randomised controlled trial to test this technology. -
Brain, body and mind: understanding consciousness | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/brain-body-and-mind-understanding-consciousness23 Feb 2016: In 10 minutes, Srivas Chennu can work out what’s going on inside your head. With the help of an electrode-studded hairnet wired up to a box that measures -
Predicting gentrification through social networking data | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/predicting-gentrification-through-social-networking-data13 Apr 2016: The ability to predict the gentrification of neighbourhoods could help local governments and policy-makers improve urban development plans and alleviate the negative effects of gentrification while benefitting from economic growth. -
Opinion: Can we save the algae biofuel industry? | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-can-we-save-the-algae-biofuel-industry10 May 2016: They also found that the economics just didn’t make sense. Building the ponds in which to grow the algae and providing enough light and nutrients for them to grow proved -
Earth, wind and flyer: the moves of Disco Tony and friends |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/earth-wind-and-flyer-the-moves-of-disco-tony-and-friends26 Jul 2016: Their trip was funded through Flight Lines (a joint project between the BTO and the Society of Wildlife Artists), the Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration account, and Smith and -
Study provides clues to why some breast cancers are hard to beat |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-provides-clues-to-why-some-breast-cancers-are-hard-to-beat10 May 2016: The research could also provide vital information to help design breast cancer trials and improved tests for the disease. ... Research like this will help us invent new diagnostic tests to guide treatment for breast cancer patients in the future.”. -
Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein’s prediction |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gravitational-waves-detected-100-years-after-einsteins-prediction11 Feb 2016: Now that we have the technological capability to test his theories with the LIGO detectors his scientific brilliance becomes all the more apparent. ... The description of this observation is beautifully described in the Einstein theory of General -
Living on the edge: succeeding in the slums | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/living-on-the-edge-succeeding-in-the-slums30 Jun 2016: funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. -
Banning trophy hunting could do more harm than good | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/banning-trophy-hunting-could-do-more-harm-than-good11 Jan 2016: Trusts to facilitate equitable benefit sharing within local communities and promote long-term economic sustainability should be created;. -
Five-dimensional black hole could ‘break’ general relativity |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/five-dimensional-black-hole-could-break-general-relativity19 Feb 2016: In the 100 years since it was published, general relativity has passed every test that has been thrown at it, but one of its limitations is the existence of singularities.
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