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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. 聽

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A silent epidemic of grief

01 Mar 2021

Major changes in bereavement care have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, amid a flood of demand for help from bereaved people, according to new...

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探花直播neuroscientist who champions LGBT+ equal rights

26 Feb 2021

Duncan Astle is a neuroscientist on a mission to understand why the brains of some children develop differently to others 鈥 and how it affects not...

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HeLa: the cells that changed science

25 Feb 2021

Discover the incredible story of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose cells enabled a scientific revolution and contributed to numerous...

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探花直播cosmologist modelling the Universe with maths

18 Feb 2021

Dr Tobias Baldauf likes nothing better than seeing an equation 鈥榗ross reality鈥. His work is helping us to answer some of the remaining questions...

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Cambridge researcher joins NASA science mission searching for signs of past life on Mars

18 Feb 2021

Professor Nicholas Tosca from the 探花直播 of Cambridge is the only UK scientist selected by NASA to be part of the core science team for the Mars...

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Digital support

10 Feb 2021

Research published today shows how digital providers are coming together to support the mental health needs of millions of users unable to access...

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鈥淪trength and courage鈥

10 Feb 2021

Confessions of a home-working and home-schooling parent.

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探花直播scientist watching light at a millionth of a millionth of a second

10 Feb 2021

When she鈥檚 not making atomic-scale changes to create super-efficient light bulbs and cut carbon emissions, Professor Rachel Oliver has her sights set...

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Beyond the pandemic: prepare and plan a biosecure future

03 Feb 2021

COVID-19 has exposed a lack of preparedness for biological hazards 鈥 both in the UK and globally. Luke Kemp from the Centre for the Study of...

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Safety screens

03 Feb 2021

Since the start of October, a dedicated team drawn from across the 探花直播 and its Colleges has been running an innovate programme to screen its...

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Dasgupta Review: Nature鈥檚 value must be included in economics to preserve biodiversity

02 Feb 2021

Nature is a 鈥渂lind spot鈥 in economics that can no longer be ignored by the accounting systems that dictate national finances, according to a major...

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Inequality in medieval Cambridge was 鈥榬ecorded on the bones鈥 of its residents

26 Jan 2021

Life in medieval Cambridge was toughest for the ordinary workers, according to a study of the 鈥渟keletal trauma鈥 found on remains from three different...

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