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7 Nov 2023: While their men were gone, women ran the household economy and took crucial economic and political decisions.”.

15 Feb 2024: The University of Cambridge study used data about the physical activity participation of more than a million five-to-17-year-olds internationally. It found

9 May 2024: Artificial intelligence that allows users to hold text and voice conversations with lost loved ones runs the risk of causing psychological harm and even

29 Jun 2023: PULSAR Hybrid Rocket Test. Although many members of the team are studying engineering, others in the society come from a wide range of backgrounds, for example business studies.

2 Apr 2024: The Institute’s director, Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, pioneered the capsule sponge – a new test that can identify ten times more heartburn patients with Barrett’s oesophagus, a pre-cursor to oesophageal

24 May 2024: Tests of the fibres printed onto a human finger suggest they could be used as continuous health monitors. ... Tests of the bioelectronic fibres, on surfaces including human fingers and dandelion seedheads, showed that they provided high-quality sensor

28 Mar 2024: Everyone has BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, but mutations in these genes - which can be inherited - increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. The study found

11 Apr 2024: Individuals who experienced maltreatment in childhood – such as emotional, physical and sexual abuse, or emotional and physical neglect – are more likely to

19 Jul 2023: Participation will involve monitoring alongside regular pregnancy checks and tests.

27 Jun 2023: cells. They also teamed up with Dr Nicholas Matheson, from the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, to test how these factors influenced the ability of a vaccinated ... Thaventhiran added: “Ultimately, this research

13 Feb 2024: Semiconductors, also known as microchips, are a key component in nearly every electrical device from mobile phones and medical equipment to electric vehicles.

4 Sep 2023: Flora Samuel. Despite changes to the HM Treasury Green Book to encourage forms of valuation other than economic, local authorities are struggling to capture social, environmental and cultural value in a ... The aim of this pragmatic project is to create

13 Nov 2023: Tests of the device showed it was able to produce clean water from highly polluted water, seawater, and even from the River Cam in central Cambridge.

13 Sep 2023: The research, a collaboration with Lancaster University, found that hedges can act as protective barriers against air pollution from major city roads by

13 Oct 2023: While ChatGPT deals in words and sentences, the team’s AI will learn from numerical data and physics simulations from across scientific fields to aid

7 Dec 2023: The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, working in partnership with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) used a combination of on-road experiments and machine

15 Nov 2023: In a study published today in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health, researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge found that

20 Nov 2023: As neural systems such as the brain organise themselves and make connections, they have to balance competing demands. For example, energy and resources are

8 Nov 2023: Thirty years after Sloan’s research, Dutta wanted to test this theory using one of the few atmospheric models that incorporates polar atmospheric clouds, to see if it might explain the ... The early Eocene was a period in the Earth’s climate with

20 Sep 2023: Earlier this year, a new report by leading consultants London Economics showed that the University adds nearly £30 billion to the economy every year and supports more than 86,000 jobs

11 Sep 2023: In research published today in Nature Mental Health, an international team of researchers, including from the University of Cambridge and Fudan University,

17 Aug 2023: Our brains are very complex organs, with huge variety between individuals in terms of the overall volume of the brain, how it is folded and how thick these

27 Nov 2023: CRISPR makes it possible to test specific DNA alterations in a controlled way to investigate the effects and impacts of genetic changes in our DNA, revealing their effects on biological processes

3 Jul 2023: Results from the IMPORT HIGH trial, published in The Lancet, show that giving some breast cancer patients a targeted additional dose of radiotherapy at the

19 Sep 2023: The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and Cornell University, found that for partial differential equations – a class of physics equations that

1 Nov 2023: This has led pharmaceutical companies to test drugs that inhibit its activity as potential treatments for cancer. ... The researchers are currently planning to test its use against inflammatory diseases in clinical trials.

19 Feb 2024: From measles and flu to SARS and COVID, mathematicians help us understand and predict the epidemics that can spread through our communities, and to help us

27 Jun 2023: In addition to scans, researchers conducted tests and questionnaires with all participants to gauge obsessive-compulsive and habitual tendencies. ... The test used a computer-based task to establish a link between an action and reward.

21 Nov 2023: Ford. “If your condition is that severe, you need access to blood tests and the acute medical care that being on an inpatient acute paediatric ward gives you, but at the

17 Jan 2024: the-counter pregnancy test.

5 Dec 2023: The community assets we should all have access to, not just schools and doctors but parks, trains, pubs and gyms, are the foundation for human wellbeing, which in turn underpins economic ... Added Westwood: “Achieving a minimum level of universal basic

30 Oct 2023: study. The new method, developed by scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Exeter and the London School of Economics, is called ‘Permanent Additional Carbon Tonne' (PACT) accounting, and can be

6 Feb 2024: As we age, our brain gradually atrophies, losing nerve cells and connections and this can lead to a decline in brain function. It’s not fully understood why

19 Oct 2023: Despite this, the researchers highlight several ongoing challenges. Even after participating in an LNGB programme, many girls still encountered significant economic challenges and deep-rooted gender and social norms, which acted ... There are some

28 Sep 2023: The study, published today in the International Journal of Epidemiology, also found that smoking meant that the baby was four times more likely to be small for

4 Jul 2023: The extensive study assessed the movements of 7,137 individual birds from 77 species of petrel, a group of wide-ranging migratory seabirds including the

16 Nov 2023: Our model could be scaled up relatively easily to test the viability of future potential drugs.”.

25 Jul 2023: The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) BioResource’s D-CYPHR – the DNA, Children and Young People’s Health Resource – will play a key role

8 Nov 2023: The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used machine learning to develop ‘HotGestures’ – analogous to the hot keys used in many desktop

27 Jun 2023: This will let us test the function of specific factors, which is difficult to do in the natural embryo.”. ... Understanding these early developmental processes holds the potential to reveal some of the causes of human birth defects and diseases, and to

29 Sep 2023: Previous studies have shown that autistic people are dying far younger than others and that they are more likely to experience a range of physical health

21 Jul 2023: Delap believes that Britain’s ageing population and struggle to fill unskilled jobs means there is a growing economic as well as a moral case for employing more people with learning

15 Aug 2023: Levels of grey matter in two parts of the brain may be linked to a desire to start smoking during adolescence and the strengthening of nicotine addiction, a

8 Aug 2023: The researchers say their findings add further evidence to the relevance of brain structure to weight and food consumption. Current estimations suggest that

21 Nov 2023: Writing in eLife, Professors Tamar Makin (Cambridge) and John Krakauer (Johns Hopkins) argue that the notion that the brain, in response to injury or deficit,

28 Jun 2023: The platform will also assist academic and industrial partners to develop better diagnostic tests and treatments for TBI.

26 Jul 2023: In a study published today in Rheumatology, researchers found that over half of the patients had rarely or never reported their mental health symptoms to a

16 Nov 2023: Rather, the economic rewards for secure, middle and upper-class lifestyles have increased, while those for less stable, working-class trajectories have either stagnated or declined.