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20 Jun 2019: More than 96% of students finish their degrees at Cambridge, and researchers found there was no correlation between drop-out rates and socio-economic backgrounds. ... Across all of our analyses we found evidence that broadly speaking, the Cambridge

25 Jun 2019: An online game in which people play the role of propaganda producers to help them identify real world disinformation has been shown to increase “psychological

18 Jun 2019: A lack of clarity on government and school policies on mental health and bereavement has led to “confusion and disagreement” on the forms of support schools

16 Oct 2019: level.”. The research was funded by the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, and Wellcome.

19 Aug 2019: Kamiar Mohaddes. Prevailing economic research anticipates the burden of climate change falling on hot or poor nations. ... The economics of climate change stretch far beyond the impact on growing crops,” said Mohaddes.

8 May 2019: This makes blood cells an ideal environment in which to test potential new drugs. ... They can also test existing psychiatric treatments on patient blood cells and may be able to predict how effective those treatments will be for each individual.

4 Jul 2019: Just over a third (3,425) of students invited to take the test responded. ... To assess this, the team used a scale known as the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test: a score of eight or above indicates harmful alcohol use.

21 Oct 2019: Developing less invasive and simpler detection techniques such as blood, breath and urine tests, which can monitor patients who are at a higher risk of certain cancers. ... The Alliance will be a globally unique platform that is able to test and validate

8 Feb 2019: A team of academics from the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, observed the courtship

15 Oct 2019: These diseases contribute to the global health and economic burden that disproportionately affects poor communities. ... The study was funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council

26 Sep 2019: Based on observations of more than one hundred children in two different hunter-gatherer communities in sub-Saharan Africa, an international team, led by

30 Apr 2019: The Cambridge researchers, in collaboration with a team from the Manta Trust, verified that the contactless technology works in field tests carried out in collaboration with the Vetsonic (UK) Ltd and

24 Jan 2019: More than six in ten adults in the UK are overweight, and one in four adults is obese. By age five, almost one in four children is either overweight or obese.

1 Oct 2019: This panel event with leading politicians, religious experts and activists from London will discuss how to respond to the rapidly evolving challenges around economic deprivation, racism, Islamophobia, extremism, and gender-based

8 Feb 2019: Women tended to have slightly worse hangovers than men. While neither blood and urine tests, nor factors such as age, sex, body weight, drinking habits and hangover frequency, helped to predict

22 Jun 2019: societal challenges that are not attainable within most short cycles of political and economic growth agendas”, said Cambridge Global Challenges Progamme Manager Sara Serradas Duarte.

22 Mar 2019: There is increased political and economic uncertainty, with the threat of lower incomes from endowments as financial markets stutter. ... And there are increasingly complex global problems that universities seek to address, such as climate change and

1 Nov 2019: Some countries may even need grand changes to their political and economic systems, a level of change that typically only occurs after a catastrophe.

29 Mar 2019: Preventing diseases is so much more effective and economic than trying to treat them after the issues have taken hold.

5 Mar 2019: The event will feature discussions by the following accomplished women:. Dr Bina Agarwal - Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.