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Inequality in medieval Cambridge was ‘recorded on the bones’ of its…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/medievalinequality26 Jan 2021: Social inequality was “recorded on the bones” of Cambridge’s medieval residents, according to a new study of hundreds of human remains excavated from three very different burial sites within the ... John the Evangelist in 2010. CAU excavated the
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Wellbeing on demand
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/wellbeing-robot24 May 2021: Richard Westcott, BBC News, meets Pepper and the researchers. This research is funded through a five-year Fellowship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
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Drawing Cambridgeshire
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/relhan-collection8 Oct 2021: Credit: Cambridge Antiquarian Society/Cambridge University Library. In 1883, the Society gave its collections, including books and artefacts, to the University of Cambridge to found a new ‘Museum of General and
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How mass testing helped limit the spread of COVID-19 at the…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/screeningprogramme1 Jun 2021: With the current uncertainty around new variants of concern, and most young adults in the UK – let alone the world – not yet vaccinated, that’s an important lesson about mass testing
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“Strength and courage”
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/tomalmerothwilliams10 Feb 2021: Somehow, with a mixture of frowns, finger pointing and pleading gestures, I manage to placate my son and a few seconds later, the BBC reporter offers me a near-miraculous new ... loneliness. This situation could have brought the worst out in people but
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"Cambridge Maths School has the potential to do enormous…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-mathematics-school25 Nov 2021: The School will offer a new and innovative approach to learning in A-Level maths, and associated subjects, and help young people manage the jump to degree-level mathematics. ... exciting new school will be a fantastic opportunity to boost high level
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Heritage science investment to unveil secrets of Cambridge University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/heritage-collection-funding7 Jan 2021: refurbishment that will enable researchers from across the UK and worldwide to undertake new research into its heritage collections. ... This significant investment in Cambridge’s new network will provide the tools and facilities for further, and even
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3D holographic head-up display could improve road safety
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/holographicdisplay26 Apr 2021: Researchers have developed the first LiDAR-based augmented reality head-up display for use in vehicles. Tests on a prototype version of the technology suggest that it could improve road safety by ‘seeing through’ objects to alert of potential
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Predicting better
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/predicting-better21 Oct 2021: develops. There may also be scope to help with other cancers. Just as PREDICT is applied differently for breast and prostate cancer, any new tools would need to respond to specific
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Digital support
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/digitalmentalhealth10 Feb 2021: If treatment needs are delayed or undetected, there is a serious risk that pre-existing symptoms will worsen, and that new cases of mental illness will emerge.
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Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ancient-greek-pop-culture8 Sep 2021: Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’. Why a new discovery about a little-known text rewrites the history of poetry and song. ... New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that ‘stressed poetry’, the ancestor of all modern poetry
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Be prepared: it’s impossible to predict an earthquake
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/earthquakes-without-frontiers9 Nov 2021: In Tehran, for example, work by EwF identified a new fault line, subsequently named the Pardisan fault. ... New building codes have been developed, and many more been retrofitted, resulting in safer and more resilient buildings.
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A mental health revolution
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/a-mental-health-revolution7 Oct 2021: treat patients, in addition to playing an invaluable role in research and the development of new drugs. ... It’s been incredible to see the development of new drugs which could dramatically improve outcomes for patients.
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Beyond the pandemic: prepare and plan a biosecure future
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/beyond-the-pandemic-biosecurity3 Feb 2021: Advances in neuroscience and bioengineering could lead to new beneficial drugs and “nootropic” cognitive enhancers, but also new weapons. ... Whether it be a new flu pandemic, new bioweapons, or new ways to sequester carbon, forewarned is forearmed.
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Living descendant of Sitting Bull confirmed by analysis of DNA from…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/sitting-bull-descendant-confirmed27 Oct 2021: The new technique can be used when very limited genetic data are available, as was the case in this study. ... This new genetic analysis provides an additional line of evidence to strengthen his claim.
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Journeys of discovery: Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/journeysofdiscovery-rapidgenomesequencing18 May 2021: The benefits to society of rapid genome sequencing are huge. Coronavirus is tracked worldwide, diseases are diagnosed, crops are improved, and new therapies and vaccines are developed. ... Our proposal was to anchor one strand of DNA to a surface and use
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Colonial encounters
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/re-entanglements-exhibition-maa12 Jun 2021: Colonial encounters. A new exhibition examines the pioneering ethnographic archive assembled by Britain’s first colonial anthropologist, Cambridge alumnus Northcote Thomas. ... Thomas’ complex legacy. In the 1920s, a new generation of anthropologists
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Economic benefits of protecting nature now outweigh those of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/economicsofprotectingnature8 Mar 2021: The new study synthesises results from 62 applications of TESSA around the world: 24 sites with relatively detailed economic data, and a further 38 with enough data to gauge whether services
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Beyond the pandemic: re-learn how to govern risk
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/beyond-the-pandemic-govern-risk25 Jan 2021: The low numbers of cases in Uruguay, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Australia and New Zealand might in turn relate to their being democracies with relatively egalitarian distributions of income and wealth. ... Outsourcing to the private sector creates new
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Track and trace in Sierra Leone
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/track-and-trace-in-sierra-leone30 Sep 2021: On 14 January 2016, following a 42-day period where no new cases had been identified, the WHO declared the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone over. ... Equipped to sequence the virus themselves within 48 hours, however, the laboratory staff were able to show
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