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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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Drawing Cambridgeshire

08 Oct 2021

A collection of drawings by local amateur artist Richard Relhan, showing the history of Cambridgeshire, has been added to the Cambridge Digital...

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Vice-Chancellor’s Awards highlight research impact and engagement across Cambridge

07 Oct 2021

Academics from across the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ have been recognised in this year’s Vice-Chancellor’s Research Impact and Engagement Awards for their research...

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A mental health revolution

07 Oct 2021

Cambridge-led computerised cognitive assessments transform early detection and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

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Concentrate farming to leave room for species and carbon

06 Oct 2021

Farming should be as high-yield as possible so it can be limited to relatively small areas, allowing much more land to be left as natural habitats...

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Track and trace in Sierra Leone

30 Sep 2021

Professor Ian Goodfellow played a crucial role in helping to bring the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone to a close in 2014. His team's work helped...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥energy researcher who wants to build better to consume less

15 Sep 2021

Against a global backdrop of rising energy demands and finite resources, Rihab Khalid set out to understand how buildings can become more energy...

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Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’ discovery rewrites history of poetry and song

08 Sep 2021

New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that ‘stressed poetry’, the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥historian gathering fragments of the past to understand how humans tick

07 Sep 2021

After he began studying at Cambridge, Sujit Sivasundaram, found the freedom to let his imagination and curiosity roam. Yet his interests and...

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Pollinators: first global risk index for species declines and effects on humanity

16 Aug 2021

̽»¨Ö±²¥Global South may have most to lose from pollinator loss, with Latin America at particular risk due to crop exports and indigenous cultures.

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Open Cambridge launches 2021 programme

16 Aug 2021

This year’s programme, focussing on the past and present, is a real treat for anyone interested in learning more about this fascinating city through...

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Climate change will transform cooling effects of volcanic eruptions, study suggests

12 Aug 2021

Researchers have shown that human-caused climate change will have important consequences for how volcanic gases interact with the atmosphere.

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Transcribing together

23 Jul 2021

Volunteers join together to help the Cambridge Digital Library transcribe the notebooks of notable British ecologist, Oliver Rackham.

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