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Cambridge’s new community joins Open Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/sustainable-you-eddington6 Sep 2022: From ecology walking tours with Eddington’s ecologist Mike Dean to a special talk with Professor of Regional Transformation and Economic Security, Shailaja Fennell, as well as a vegan market and
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Ultra-powerful brain scanners offer hope for Parkinson’s disease…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/7T-scanners-Parkinsons17 May 2022: apathy and the worse they performed at cognitive tests.
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Cambridge research centre puts people at the heart of AI | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-research-centre-puts-people-at-the-heart-of-ai12 Jul 2022: While AI has the potential to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems in healthcare, education, climate science and economic sustainability it will need to embrace its human origins
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Self-healing materials for robotics made from ‘jelly’ and salt |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/self-healing-materials-for-robotics-made-from-jelly-and-salt18 Feb 2022: We started with a stretchy, gelatine-based material which is cheap, biodegradable and biocompatible and carried out different tests on how to incorporate sensors into the material by adding in lots
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Stuffed puppies, smart birds and self-healing robots
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/24CamThings202219 Dec 2022: If this sounds familiar, it’s because it’s a version of the famous marshmallow test given to you children at Stanford University.
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New ideas and inspiration feature at Cambridge Festival 2022
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-2022-launch30 Mar 2022: In An unequal world: beyond levelling up [4th April, 6-7pm, hybrid] Professor Simon Szreter, economics consultant Hilary Cooper and Professor Diane Coyle will look not only at longer term inequality ... Diane Coyle, the Bennett Professor of Public Policy
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Faulty BRCA genes linked to prostate and pancreatic cancers |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/faulty-brca-genes-linked-to-prostate-and-pancreatic-cancers25 Jan 2022: A study published today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology has provided the strongest evidence to date of these links and helped researchers estimate more
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London Underground polluted with metallic particles small enough to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/london-underground-pollution15 Dec 2022: particles. “Since most of these air pollution particles are metallic, the Underground is an ideal place to test whether magnetism can be an effective way to monitor pollution,” said Professor Richard
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Students in Rwanda confound pandemic predictions and head back to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/students-in-rwanda-confound-pandemic-predictions-and-head-back-to-school7 Oct 2022: The sample group of students also took a learning assessment, in the form of a numeracy test, in February 2020, and again in May 2021 – two terms after their return to ... The average score rose from 0.47 in the first test to 0.52 in the second.
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Congratulations
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/going-to-cambridge-202218 Aug 2022: Stephen Odeleye. Stephen Odeleye. 18-year-old Stephen is coming to Lucy Cavendish College to study Land Economy after achieving two As and an A in Economics, Maths and Further Maths
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The future of aviation: how will we fly to COP in 2035? | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-future-of-aviation-how-will-we-fly-to-cop-in-203518 Nov 2022: Aviation plays a key role in connecting our world, but access to the economic and social opportunities it brings are not equally available.
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Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Research Impact and Engagement 2022
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/vice-chancellors-awards-20226 Oct 2022: significant economic, social and cultural impact from and engagement with and for research. ... Cambridge is a global leader in interdisciplinary discovery and innovation with wide social, cultural and economic impact.
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Fitness levels accurately predicted using wearable devices – no…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fitness-levels-can-be-accurately-predicted-using-wearable-devices-no-exercise-required1 Dec 2022: The model showed a high degree of accuracy compared to lab-based tests, and outperforms other approaches. ... Professional athletes, for example, test their VO2max by measuring their oxygen consumption while they exercise to the point of exhaustion.
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A retrofitting revolution
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/a-retrofitting-revolution6 Oct 2022: Internal and external data were collected over two summers. The information was then used to model the cities and test the impact of retrofitted adaptations.
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Mums’ activity levels may depend on number and ages of children |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mums-activity-levels-may-depend-on-number-and-ages-of-children16 Nov 2022: Physical activity – particularly when it is moderate to vigorous – has many health benefits, decreasing the risk of a wide range of diseases from cancer to
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'It's about finding your own way': Cambridge student…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-student-eve14 Jun 2022: It wouldn’t just be learning for a test, for the sake of it, it would be learning to enhance my understanding of English as a language, the culture and the
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Seawater could have provided phosphorous required for emerging life | …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/seawater-could-have-provided-phosphorous-required-for-emerging-life27 Sep 2022: The Baltic Sea pore waters provided one set of modern samples they used to test their model.
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Sea change for Hull
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/communicating-impact-sea-level-rise-in-hull16 Dec 2022: It’s often pretty static – lots of modelling, lots of economics presented in a static report with conclusions at the end. ... This allows all the uncertainty to be propagated through to the calculation of risk, driven by economic damages.
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Alzheimer’s disease causes cells to overheat and ‘fry like eggs’ |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/alzheimers-disease-causes-cells-to-overheat-and-fry-like-eggs31 May 2022: The experiments also suggest that the compound has potential as a therapeutic for Alzheimer’s disease, although extensive tests and clinical trials would first be required.
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"There isn’t anything like it in the UK"
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/heart-and-lung-research-institute11 Jul 2022: Toshner wants to transform the way that trials are designed. The current model – patient comes in, receives the drug, goes home or stays overnight, and returns for hospital-based tests at ... While the emphasis has previously been on basic biology,
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Robots can be used to assess children’s mental wellbeing, study…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/robots-can-be-used-to-assess-childrens-mental-wellbeing-study-suggests1 Sep 2022: SMFQ); 3) administered a picture task inspired by the Children’s Apperception Test (CAT), where children are asked to answer questions related to pictures shown; and 4) administered the Revised
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Solving grammar’s greatest puzzle
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/solving-grammars-greatest-puzzle15 Dec 2022: Rajpopat learnt Sanskrit in high school and Pāṇini's Sanskrit grammar informally from a retired Indian professor at no charge whilst pursuing his Bachelors in Economics in Mumbai.
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Live long and prosper
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/combatting-ageing-and-disease14 Jul 2022: It wasn't just money that we got from Jonathan. He asked us if we had heard of Steve Horvath and his epigenetic clock, a biochemical test that can be used
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“Write fewer papers, take more risks”: researchers call for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/write-fewer-papers-take-more-risks-researchers-call-for-rebellion6 Jun 2022: This trains circus performers but has also used the unexpected realm of circus arts, and their capacity to test the extremes of human ability and self-control, to undertake studies into
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Smart lighting system based on quantum dots more accurately…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/smart-lighting-system-based-on-quantum-dots-more-accurately-reproduces-daylight3 Aug 2022: Early tests of the new design showed excellent colour rendering, a wider operating range than current smart lighting technology, and wider spectrum of white light customisation. ... The test showed excellent colour rendering, a wider operating range than
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Musical preferences unite personalities across the globe
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/musical-preferences-unite-personalities-worldwide10 Feb 2022: Take the musical preference and personality test, and find out how you score.. ... He also thinks that future research should rigorously test the links between music and personality in real-world settings to see how music can be a bridge between people
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‘Synthetic’ embryo with brain and beating heart grown from stem cells …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/model-embryo-from-stem-cells25 Aug 2022: Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz has made an incredible scientific breakthrough. The creation of synthetic mouse embryos in a test tube that develop brains and beating hearts, starting only with embryonic stem
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Greater business-university collaboration will reap rewards, says new …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/greater-business-university-collaboration-will-reap-rewards-says-new-report28 Mar 2022: If the destructive impact of the pandemic on collaborations persists it will harm future economic growth and business performance. ... Non-STEM disciplines are particularly significant in knowledge-intensive services and other service industries, which
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Cambridge responds to legacies of enslavement inquiry
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/legacies-of-enslavement-inquiry22 Sep 2022: There can be no doubt that collectively the collegiate University gained economic benefit from colonial exploitation, which was itself based on the labour of enslaved people, as did the country as ... a whole, and the economic legacy of that gain
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Cambridge scientists get £22.5 million boost from Cancer Research UK…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-scientists-get-ps225-million-boost-from-cancer-research-uk27 Jan 2022: The Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre will receive around £22.5 million over the next five years as part of the development of a unique chain of cutting-edge
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Cambridge University Herbarium gains national significance accolade
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-herbarium-awarded-designated-status31 May 2022: They are at the core of efforts to identify and name plant species, conserve biodiversity, preserve indigenous plant knowledge, and improve the economic status of local communities around the world.
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Set up reserve lab capacity now for faster response to next pandemic, …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/set-up-reserve-lab-capacity-now-for-faster-response-to-next-pandemic-say-researchers28 Sep 2022: In early 2020 we were working until late at night, with very few people processing tests for the whole country,” said Skittrall. ... UK laboratories have now conducted over 200 million PCR tests for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/one-in-three-young-people-say-they-felt-happier-during-lockdown22 Feb 2022: As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, many countries imposed strict lockdown measures, with workplaces and businesses closing and people forced to remain
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Drought encouraged Attila’s Huns to attack the Roman empire, tree…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/drought-encouraged-attilas-huns-to-attack-the-roman-empire-tree-rings-suggest15 Dec 2022: Roman empire, forcing Hunnic peoples to adopt new strategies to ‘buffer against severe economic challenges’. ... Hakenbeck said: “Climate-induced economic disruption may have required Attila and others of high rank to extract gold from the Roman
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Women are ‘running with leaded shoes’ when promoted at work, says…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/women-are-running-with-leaded-shoes-when-promoted-at-work-says-study19 Apr 2022: The research used data from 14,618 adult US workers (50.7% male, 49.3% female) reflecting a diversity of race, ethnicity and industries, to test the following factors:.
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Prostate cancer risk prediction algorithm could help target testing…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/prostate-cancer-risk-prediction-algorithm-could-help-target-testing-at-men-at-greatest-risk9 Dec 2022: Further tests, such as tissue biopsies or MRI scans, are therefore required to confirm a diagnosis. ... Also, many prostate tumours identified by PSA tests are slow-growing and would not have been life-threatening.
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It's time to look at the evidence
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/a-conservation-revolution-to-reverse-biodiversity-loss29 Jun 2022: Users are also encouraged to test interventions with as yet little or no evidence, and new conservation approaches, and to publish their results in the Conservation Evidence Journal so the information
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Fervent fans keep faith with heroes even after ‘immoral acts’, study…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fervent-fans-keep-faith-with-heroes-even-after-immoral-acts-study-finds6 Sep 2022: The more that people express admiration for a public figure, the more likely they are to forgive and defend them after a 'moral violation', according to a new
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Feeling poorer than your friends in early adolescence is associated…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/feeling-poorer-than-your-friends-in-early-adolescence-is-associated-with-worse-mental-health15 Nov 2022: The researchers analysed perceived economic inequality within friendship groups among 12,995 children in the UK at age 11. ... The surveys gauged an array of mental states and social behaviours, and included questions on perceived economic status.
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Cambridge academics win European Research Council Advanced Grants
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-academics-win-european-research-council-advanced-grants26 Apr 2022: The project will explore novel control strategies to interconnect event-based sensors and actuators and will test them both in electrophysiological and electronic environments.
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Live cells discovered in human breast milk could aid breast cancer…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/live-cells-discovered-in-human-breast-milk-could-aid-breast-cancer-research28 Jan 2022: The study was led by researchers from the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (CSCI) and the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge.
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Protected areas saw dramatic spikes in fires during COVID lockdowns,…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/protected-areas-saw-dramatic-spikes-in-fires-during-covid-lockdowns-study-finds5 May 2022: However, burning quickly returned to normal levels as predicted by the modelling once management operations resumed – despite continued border closures and economic hardships as a result of the ongoing pandemic. ... The pandemic increased economic
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Curbing COVID-19 in schools: Cambridge scientists support CO2 monitor …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/curbing-covid-19-in-schools-cambridge-scientists-support-co2-monitor-rollout17 Jan 2022: The portability of the CO2 monitors, supplied by the Department for Education (DfE), means schools can move them around to test different areas, starting with those they suspect may be poorly
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Most young people’s well-being falls sharply in first years of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/most-young-peoples-well-being-falls-sharply-in-first-years-of-secondary-school23 Nov 2022: It is widely accepted that young people’s well-being and mental health are influenced by factors such as economic circumstances and family life. ... They then calculated a well-being ‘score’ for each student, balanced to control for other factors
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Scientists detect dementia signs as early as nine years ahead of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-detect-dementia-signs-as-early-as-nine-years-ahead-of-diagnosis13 Oct 2022: As well as collecting information on participants’ health and disease diagnoses, UK Biobank collected data from a battery of tests including problem solving, memory, reaction times and grip strength, as well
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Pre-school play with friends lowers risk of mental health problems…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pre-school-play-with-friends-lowers-risk-of-mental-health-problems-later14 Jun 2022: Researchers at the University of Cambridge analysed data from almost 1,700 children, collected when they were aged three and seven. Those with better peer play
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Competition with China a ‘driving force’ for clean energy funding in…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/competition-with-china-a-driving-force-for-clean-energy-funding-in-the-21st-century12 Sep 2022: For example, after 2014, public RD&D institutions across the eight economies with a stated goal of “competitiveness and economic growth” increased by 14 percentage points. ... Research and development for onshore wind increased in major economics
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Largest study of whole genome sequencing data reveals new clues to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/largest-study-of-whole-genome-sequencing-data-reveals-new-clues-to-causes-of-cancer21 Apr 2022: This study shows how powerful whole genome sequencing tests can be in giving clues into how the cancer may have developed, how it will behave and what treatment options would work
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Prostate cancer cases risk late detection due to misleading urinary…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/prostate-cancer-cases-risk-being-detected-too-late-due-to-misleading-focus-on-urinary-problems-say4 Aug 2022: Testing for prostate cancer involves a blood test that looks for a protein known as a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) that is made only by the prostate gland; however, it is ... If men were aware that just because they have no symptoms doesn’t
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Learning through 'guided' play can be as effective as…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/learning-through-guided-play-can-be-as-effective-as-adult-led-instruction12 Jan 2022: Teaching younger children through 'guided' play can support key aspects of their learning and development at least as well, and sometimes better, than
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