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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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Beyond the pandemic: rethink the menu and how much it costs

24 Sep 2020

Boris Johnson has urged the country 鈥渢o lose weight to beat coronavirus鈥 through exercise and healthy eating. Dr Jean Adams suggests that food...

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Provide shady spots to protect butterflies from climate change

24 Sep 2020

Researchers have discovered significant variations in the ability of different UK butterfly species to maintain a suitable body temperature. Species...

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探花直播Zoologist鈥檚 Guide to the Galaxy

22 Sep 2020

In his new book, Dr Arik Kershenbaum draws on his knowledge of life on Earth to argue that aliens probably aren鈥檛 as weird as we might expect.

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鈥淔or the creative, with the energy to grasp them, this year will present opportunities like no other.鈥

18 Sep 2020

Dr Judith Bunbury, Senior Tutor at St Edmund鈥檚 College, looks ahead to the coming term, and all it has in store for new and returning students.

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Unexpected experiences: Toni Fola-Alade talks about studying for finals during a pandemic

17 Sep 2020

Final-year student Toni Fola-Alade had a plan: secure investment for his startup, focus on his exams and enjoy his final term as a student. Then...

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Beyond the pandemic: find better ways to talk about death

08 Sep 2020

COVID-19 has forced millions of people to confront the prospect of dying earlier than they expected and under extraordinary circumstances. Now more...

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鈥淏ehind every COVID-19 test sample is a person worried about their results鈥

04 Sep 2020

Meet the volunteer scientists who turn swab samples into diagnoses 鈥 again and again and again.

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探花直播Facebook post that launched a thousand shields (and counting)

03 Sep 2020

Cambridge researchers are supporting a project to 3D-print face shields and face masks in Malawi. 探花直播work is helping them create a 'blueprint' for...

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Cambridge 探花直播 Library joins Google Arts and Culture

31 Aug 2020

Cambridge 探花直播 Library partners with Google Arts and Culture to open its world-class collections freely to a global audience becoming the first...

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Beyond the pandemic: put universities at the heart of an innovation-led recovery

28 Aug 2020

Universities have stepped up to meet the challenges presented by the pandemic. Tomas Ulrichsen, an expert on universities and their role in...

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Call of the wild collector

28 Aug 2020

Walking at 鈥榖otanist pace鈥 on Mount Terror in South Africa, Dr 脕ngela Cano likes to stop and smell the succulents. She then measures, photographs...

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Unexpected experiences: Mike Weekes describes setting up a full-scale COVID-19 testing facility

27 Aug 2020

When infectious diseases expert Mike Weekes realised he and colleagues had know-how that could help protect staff, patients and students in a...

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