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Cambridge is shaping AI for everyone

07 April 2025

Explore how Cambridge is using AI for better healthcare, smarter public services and new ways of tackling climate change. Meet our community and discover how ai@cam is supporting the development of AI that works for science, citizens and society.  

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Korowai on TV: the naked truth

20 Dec 2021

Why an indigenous people takes their clothes off for cash, and what it reveals about culturally complex hopes and dreams.

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Cambridge COVID vaccine in clinical trials

14 Dec 2021

Safety trials are underway for a vaccine developed by Cambridge researchers that could be used as a booster targeting COVID-19 virus variants and...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥student helping to demystify Cambridge

06 Dec 2021

Tami Briggs didn’t want to apply to Cambridge but getting the right information made her change her mind. She became a volunteer for InsideUni, the...

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"Cambridge Maths School has the potential to do enormous good" - development of specialist sixth form in Cambridge

25 Nov 2021

̽»¨Ö±²¥Cambridge Mathematics School will open in Cambridge in September 2023, welcoming 16 to 19 year olds from across the East of England

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Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than we thought

24 Nov 2021

̽»¨Ö±²¥Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century – decades earlier than records suggest – due to warmer water flowing...

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Oldest Scottish manuscript to go on display in Aberdeen

24 Nov 2021

̽»¨Ö±²¥Book of Deer, possibly Scotland’s oldest surviving manuscript, is set to return to the north-east of Scotland for the first time in 1,000 years...

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Reducing the rise of antibiotic resistance

22 Nov 2021

Rising resistance to antibiotics is a worrying prospect, but a success story happening across the farms of the UK gives hope that something can be...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥microbiologist tackling humanity’s next biggest killer

17 Nov 2021

Since childhood Stephen Baker says he had a grim fascination with poo. He caught the bug for microbiology and spent 12 years in Vietnam researching...

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John Siberch: Cambridge’s first printer (and record debtor?)

17 Nov 2021

2021 is the 500th anniversary of the first works printed in Cambridge

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Sustainable, biodegradable glitter – from your fruit bowl

11 Nov 2021

Cambridge researchers have developed a sustainable, plastic-free glitter for use in the cosmetics industry – and it’s made from the cellulose found...

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Be prepared: it’s impossible to predict an earthquake

09 Nov 2021

A collaboration across many countries has shifted the focus away from short-term earthquake prediction towards increasing resilience. ̽»¨Ö±²¥results are...

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Running water

08 Nov 2021

Meet social enterprise founder, Francesca O'Hanlon whose tech start-up is partnering with local plumbing businesses to bring clean water to...

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