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Successful honey-hunters know how to communicate with wild birds
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/human-honeyguide-communication8 Dec 2023: Spottiswoode added: “Just as humans across the world communicate using a range of different local languages, people across Africa communicate with honeyguide birds using a range of different local sounds.”. ... It’s such a privilege to witness -
“It's not one single trauma, it’s hundreds of traumas”
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/mental-health-migration9 Nov 2023: According to the United Nations, one in eight people across the world – an estimated one billion people – are on the move. ... We wanted to show the reality of the situation for these people and the challenges they face.”. -
The Fens of eastern England once held vast woodlands
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/fen-woodlands24 Nov 2023: While the area is great for farming and does have its own charms, few people would describe the Fens as spectacular: for the most part, the area is extremely flat and -
“Incredible” diabetes management app now recommended by NICE
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/nice-recommends-type-1-diabetes-app7 Nov 2023: meaning that even more people living with the disease will be able to use this life-changing app. ... The NICE guidelines are an essential milestone in the journey of helping people with diabetes to live better lives,” says Hovorka. -
Historical violence in Tasmania
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/colonial-history-morton-allport29 Nov 2023: Specimens like the thylacines in our collection hold extreme power in allowing museums to connect people to this story,” said Ashby. ... In 1830, British settlers in Tasmania established the first bounties encouraging violence against both Tasmania’s -
Vision in the field: Photography from social anthropology
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/social-anthropology-photography-202323 Jan 2024: Monument multiple': Sarthak Malhotra. People in the neighbourhoods surrounding the Taj Mahal visit shrines that offer views of the architectural marvel. ... What does this place of mean to those people who live in its immediate vicinity?". -
AI at Cambridge Festival 2024
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-2024-ai-technology5 Mar 2024: There will be some people who believe misinformation, but the bigger effect is that people will say ‘I don’t know what to believe’ and disengage. ... I trust that that people are smart, if they have the chance to show it, and to engage meaningfully -
Mother Nature knows best when it comes to climate solutions, social…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/mother-nature-climate-solutions3 Nov 2023: A survey of more than a million social media posts suggests that people feel more positive about Nature's ability to solve climate change than human technology, according to new research. ... That's why we chose a different approach: we were interested -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Clare Brooks
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/clare-brooks6 Mar 2024: Our local towns need vibrant professional communities that encourage people to stay, build and contribute; to feel valued and to see that they can make a difference. ... Yes; we really need to address why young people are choosing not to go to school. -
Celebrating Women in STEM
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/women-in-stem-202411 Feb 2024: Now she uses her background in chemistry and molecular biology, and her love for beans, to secure a brighter, well-nourished future for people across the planet. -
Moving a capital city: learning from when the earth moves
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/indonesia-earthquake-hazard14 Nov 2023: Part of the summit of Mount Kinabalu fell, killing 18 people including schoolchildren and their teachers. ... killing 4,500 people, resulting in 200,000 refugees, and costing the Indonesian economy an estimated US$911 million. -
Romani storytelling, amazing animals and science fun for all: A feast …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-family-events-20245 Mar 2024: Two people wear VR headsets. Two people wear VR headsets. Join the enchanting Romani storyteller, renowned author and toymaker Richard O’Neill in The nomadic storyteller from the North (24 March). ... Over the weekend, The William Templeton Foundation -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Anna Moore
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/anna-moore26 Mar 2024: Is the D-CYPHR programme open to all children and young people in the UK? ... Why is it so important to get as many children and young people participating as possible? -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Tom McClelland
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/tom-mcclelland20 Mar 2024: It’s been great to see how open people are to applying lessons from academia. ... As discussed, objects can afford various actions for us. But people too present us with possibilities for action. -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Adrian Liston
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/adrian-liston17 Mar 2024: Why are some people susceptible to certain immune diseases and others aren’t? ... Now days most people probably don’t appreciate the advantage that their increased susceptibility to pollen allergy may give in fighting off parasitic worm infections -
High ambitions - Cambridge University backs Standing Tall art trail…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-university-standing-tall-trail21 Mar 2024: Proceeds from the city-wide trail of 31 large giraffe sculptures – which includes three sponsored by the University – will support Break, a charity working with young people in and around care ... Most of us have experienced some level of hardship in -
A habitable planet for healthy humans
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/habitable-healthy-planet13 Dec 2023: The Associate Professor of Sustainable Built Environment presented her research on how buildings and human-made spaces affect people's health, particularly with the growing rise in extreme temperatures. -
Institute for Technology and Humanity: Ensuring technology benefits…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/institute-technology-humanity-launch21 Nov 2023: Just months after the Covid outbreak, scientists were testing mRNA vaccines that now protect over five billion people. ... Major investments are now going into life extension technology from some of the world’s wealthiest people. -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Giles Yeo
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-speaker-spotlight-giles-yeo4 Mar 2024: People buy ultra processed foods because they are cheaper in price, convenient and energetically cheaper and the cost of living crisis has exacerbated this situation. ... A minority of people think I am being anti-physics when I say that calories don't -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Emily Kenway
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-speaker-spotlight-emily-kenway23 Feb 2024: I’d love to see people working on social care policy integrating unpaid carers into their research and recommendations. ... I have also received an overwhelming number of emails and messages since it came out from carers around the world, as well as -
Time, crime and how can the arts interact with a Natural World in…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/performance-arts-cambridge-festival4 Mar 2024: The artists included in this exhibition directly address the ways they have each been categorised by wider British society: rough-sleepers; addicts; disabled people; Travellers; migrants; and children. -
Groundbreaking work to beat cancer in spotlight at Cambridge Festival …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-cancer-202415 Feb 2024: 4 people to survive cancer by 2034. -
Poems on the Underground archive arrives at Cambridge University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/poems-on-the-underground-archive23 Feb 2024: difference, I am sure, to the life-worth of poetry for many people. ... by so many people in such a public place. -
Earth’s earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/earths-earliest-forest-somerset7 Mar 2024: People sometimes think that British rocks have been looked at enough, but this shows that revisiting them can yield important new discoveries.”. -
‘Nation of makers’: Britain industrialised over a century earlier…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/nation-of-makers-industrial-britain5 Apr 2024: The research shows that 17. th. century Britain saw a steep decline in agricultural peasantry, and a surge in people who manufactured goods: from local artisans like blacksmiths, shoemakers and wheelwrights, -
Marking International Women’s Day at the Cambridge Festival
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-international-womens-day8 Mar 2024: Her academic expertise is in the study of social norms that govern human behaviour – particularly the impact and development of unwritten rules and conventions, and how people respond to breaches of ... 28 March, 5.30pm). As part of the Cambridge -
Ancient DNA reveals reason for high MS and Alzheimer's rates in…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/disease-spread-mapped-using-ancient-DNA10 Jan 2024: They found:. The origins of neurodegenerative diseases including multiple sclerosis. Why northern Europeans today are taller than people from southern Europe. ... They compared the ancient DNA data to modern DNA from 400,000 people living in Britain, -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Alexandra Zhirnova
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/alexandra-zhirnova7 Mar 2024: But when you look at literature from the past, you will find that ancient and medieval people were having some familiar debates. ... But of course, there aren't as many people today who would openly say something like this to a woman's face. -
Why seven in ten women experience pregnancy sickness
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/pregnancy-sickness-cause13 Dec 2023: It wasn't an area of research that people were really interested in. -
Last call: how different cultures deal with death
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/last-call-how-other-cultures-deal-with-death21 Feb 2024: When the international coverage started, and the island became very busy with Covid victims, a lot of people were really shocked.”. ... So, it's really interesting that this kind of special care to isolate people that had died of AIDS took place -
Unveiling Darwin's treasures
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/unveiling-darwins-treasures21 Mar 2024: These particular specimens correspond with letters from Darwin, held in the Cambridge University Library (CUL), where he describes meeting the indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego and observing them on the -
Ageing: can we add more life to our years?
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/reverse-age-and-extend-health20 Dec 2023: So some of the cells of people who are 80-90 years old look similar to the cells of progeria patients,” says Larrieu, in the Department of Pharmacology. ... All these Cambridge researchers say that their goal isn’t to find a way to live forever, but -
Research reveals ‘cosy domesticity’ of prehistoric stilt-house…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/must-farm-prehistoric-stilt-house-dwellers20 Mar 2024: These people were confident and accomplished home-builders. They had a design that worked beautifully for an increasingly drowned landscape,” said CAU’s Mark Knight, report co-author and excavation director. ... A settlement like this would have had -
Taking Cambridge global
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/taking-cambridge-global1 Dec 2023: Gladden remembers: “Some people still felt quite strongly at that time that Cambridge happens in Cambridge and by trying to export our essence to a new base, we might lose something -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Mark Cortnage
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/mark-cortnage8 Mar 2024: The Blue Zones diet is based on the observed eating habits of some of the world's longest-lived people. ... As so often, with most diets, people will tend to stop at some point. -
Cambridge University's Experience Postgrad Life Sciences…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/experience-postgrad-life-sciences-202320 Nov 2023: It has been easy to meet people and make friends. I’m also looking forward to starting in the lab and learning new techniques. ... I eventually understood that it is truly the people and the passion they bring that makes Cambridge as remarkable as it is -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Sir Richard Evans
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-speaker-spotlight-richard-evans21 Feb 2024: CamFest Speaker Spotlight. Professor Sir Richard Evans. Cambridge historian Professor Sir Richard Evans, a world authority on the Nazis and author of the forthcoming Hitler’s People, will be speaking at ... That having been said, context remains vital. -
From ground-breaking research in Nigeria to using novel tools to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/vice-chancellors-awards-202312 Dec 2023: People with lived experience of children’s social care have shaped the research and enabled Dr Coughlan to attend to critical issues, including suicide and self-harm following abuse or neglect. -
How do we protect doctors, media and NGOs in war? - a time to discuss
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/how-to-protect-doctors-medics-ngos-war18 Mar 2024: accommodating the core people who run to a war zone – medics, media and NGOS. -
Facing The New Reality
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/CharityFilmAwards-20245 Mar 2024: and Siemens, a Cambridge alumni event hosted byand met with dozens of supporters, policymakers, business, industry and climate leaders. -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Clive Boddy
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/clive-boddy-20244 Mar 2024: Additionally, organisations lose experienced staff as people start to vote with their feet and leave. ... They both like to hurt people, but they do it in different ways. -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: George the Poet
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/george-the-poet25 Mar 2024: people from other parts of the world. -
Cambridge launches 'Problem-Solving Schools' initiative as AI …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/nrich-problem-solving-schools16 Nov 2023: We want our young people to have the curiosity and confidence to question things, so if they come across some data or a graph in the media, or wherever, they have -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Diarmuid Hester
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/diarmuid-hester17 Mar 2024: What inspired Nothing ever just disappears? I was initially interested in traditional queer spaces - bars and clubs that are sites of community-building, solidarity, and history for LGBTQ+ people. ... Through their stories I show that even under the most -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Claire Hynes
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/claire-hynes8 Mar 2024: To address the disconnection between Black people’s lived experiences and the strange, sometimes warped, representations of those experiences. ... In order to move beyond ‘ tickboxing’, questions need to be asked about the fairness of systems and -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-speaker-spotlight-david-spiegelhalter16 Feb 2024: How can we best teach young people to interrogate statistics better? ... Conflict of interest, I am part of this group). What is the most important thing people should understand about statistics? -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Saleyha Ahsan
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/saleyha-ahsan18 Mar 2024: I wanted to continue to tell people's stories. I felt it was important that those stories were heard. -
Cambridge academic named backup astronaut on NASA's historic…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/jenni-gibbons-artemis-mission-moon6 Dec 2023: I feel a tremendous amount of support from those people, and St Catharine's College, and I feel like that's one of the wonderful things that the University of Cambridge -
Longevity and nutrition : Can we all really live to 100 and beyond?
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-longevity-and-nutrition28 Feb 2024: People are living longer than ever before. Since 1900,life expectancy has increased, on average (rounded) in the UK from 46 to 82 years and is projected to reach 91 years -
Cambridge releases new videos marking University Mental Health Day
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-releases-new-videos-marking-university-mental-health-day14 Mar 2024: Featuring voices from all 31 Colleges, the videos encourage students to reach out for help when things get tough.
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