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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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A feast for the senses

29 Nov 2019

A mouth-watering / stomach-churning new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum explores our complex relationship with food

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Cambridge Zero

26 Nov 2019

If we are to avert a climate disaster, we must sharply reduce our emissions, starting today. Cambridge Zero, the ̽»¨Ö±²¥'s ambitious new climate...

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Cambridge Green

20 Nov 2019

From removing ruminant meat from its menus to building ‘green’ buildings, the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge is weaving sustainability into its very fabric...

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Now we’re talking: the project helping teenage refugees and asylum-seekers build a new life in Britain

20 Nov 2019

A new collaboration involving Cambridge linguists and a student-led charitable group is helping young refugees and asylum-seekers develop their...

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An instrumental collection

24 Oct 2019

Hundreds of scientific treasures are going on display as the Whipple Museum marks the 75th anniversary of a remarkable donation to the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of...

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Living with snow leopards

24 Oct 2019

Local people in the Nepal Himalayas value snow leopards as much for the potential personal benefits they gain from the animals’ conservation as they...

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London’s forgotten businesswomen

20 Sep 2019

A new exhibition celebrates the City of London's 18th-century female entrepreneurs

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̽»¨Ö±²¥Pict warrior fighting her inner demons

11 Sep 2019

How games developers, a Cambridge psychiatrist and people who live with hearing voices helped bring to life the psychoses experienced by the lead...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥butterflies are coming

25 Jul 2019

Climate change poses a major threat to butterflies but a new generation of Cambridge scientists is working to unlock their secrets and help them...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥Channel Islands' victims and survivors of Nazi persecution

24 Jul 2019

A decade of research reveals the harrowing experiences of Channel Islanders persecuted by the Nazis during the Second World War.

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Mapping the Moon through the ages

16 Jul 2019

On the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing, the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library shares some of its incredible moon-related maps and archive.

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Exposing a Nazi: ̽»¨Ö±²¥exhibition destroying a myth

13 Jun 2019

In 1941, the Nazis banned Emil Nolde from painting, for life. For the past 50 years, many Germans have viewed him as the persecuted artist but now a...

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