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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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From the casebooks of the most notorious astrologer doctors in all England

16 May 2019

A ten-year project to study and digitise some 80,000 cases recorded by two famous astrological physicians has opened a 鈥渨ormhole鈥 into the worries...

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Changing the world, one caf茅 at a time

01 May 2019

Not far from the mystical temple complex of Angkor Wat in Cambodia sits a caf茅, set up with support from the 探花直播 of Cambridge, that provides...

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Secret recordings reveal the sexual struggles of Fifties Britain

16 Apr 2019

A new study of pioneering counselling sessions explores how women sought to overcome sexual difficulties at a pivotal moment in Britain鈥檚 sex history.

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Sea Change

22 Mar 2019

探花直播coast is an intrinsic part of British identity 鈥 and perhaps nowhere is it more at risk than in the East of England. Cambridge researchers are...

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Music to the ears: Liszt鈥檚 lost opera

18 Feb 2019

Liszt's lost opera heard for the first time in 170 years

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Does the North Pole still matter?

01 Feb 2019

Is the North Pole still important, when most of us will never visit it and know almost nothing about it? A new book by 探花直播 of Cambridge...

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鈥淩obots can go all the way to Mars, but they can鈥檛 pick up the groceries鈥

18 Dec 2018

In the popular imagination, robots have been portrayed alternatively as friendly companions or existential threat. But while robots are becoming...

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鈥楾reasure trove鈥 of dinosaur footprints found in southern England

14 Dec 2018

More than 85 well-preserved dinosaur footprints 鈥 made by at least seven different species 鈥 have been uncovered in East Sussex, representing the...

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Bats to the Rescue

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探花直播Lost Words: inspiring children to love and protect nature

30 Nov 2018

探花直播Lost Words is a book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris that summons the magic of nature to help children find, love and protect the natural...

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Black researchers shaping the future

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