As more and more crime moves online, computer scientists, criminologists and legal academics have joined forces in Cambridge to improve our understanding and responses to cybercrime, helping governments, businesses and ordinary users construct better defences.
​Does anxiety keep getting in the way of you making connections with the people you’d like to spend more time with? Maybe you’ve just met someone, but are worried that your anxiety will ruin it all. People with anxiety can be highly self-critical, tend to overestimate the likelihood that something negative will happen, and often feel that others are judging them.
Professor Oliver Hart, a former undergraduateÌýat King’s College (1966), and a former Fellow of Churchill College, has been jointly awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, along with Bengt Holmström of MITÌýfor their work in the field of contracts.
Three alumni of the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of CambridgeÌýwere today awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work in the field of condensed matter physics.
New research has found that controlled trophy hunting of lions can actually help conserve the species, but only in areas where hunting companies are given long-term land management rights.ÌýÌý
̽»¨Ö±²¥process by which a mother’s diet during pregnancy can permanently affect her offspring’s attributes, such as weight, could be strongly influenced by genetic variation in an unexpected part of the genome, according to research published today. ̽»¨Ö±²¥discovery could shed light on why many human genetic studies have previously not been able to fully explain how certain diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and obesity, are inherited.
A difference in values can be a major stumbling block for family relationships, writes Dr Lucy Blake from the Centre for Family Research for ̽»¨Ö±²¥Conversation website, and these may have been exacerbated in the recent Brexit debate. So what practical steps can people take to help heal rifts?
Transparency without accessibility is not enough: stats must be put in context, say researchers.Ìý
Several members of the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ have been named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list announced today.
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OliviaÌýRemesÌý(Cambridge Institute of Public Health) discusses why women are almost twice as likely to experience anxiety as men.
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