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Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia

Research News - Thu, 24/07/2025 - 23:30

An analysis of studies incorporating data from almost 30 million people has highlighted the role that air pollution – including that coming from car exhaust emissions – plays in increased risk of dementia.

A Cambridge legal expert on the ICJ's landmark climate opinion

Research News - Thu, 24/07/2025 - 14:04

A Cambridge professor and counsel team member for Vanuatu gives his initial views on the ICJ Advisory Opinion.

Grand Canyon was a ‘Goldilocks zone’ for the evolution of early animals

Research News - Wed, 23/07/2025 - 18:59

A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the Grand Canyon, one of the natural world’s most iconic sites.

Researchers use AI to ‘see’ landslides and target disaster response

Research News - Tue, 22/07/2025 - 10:36

Researchers from the University of Cambridge are using AI to speed up landslide detection following major earthquakes and extreme rainfall events—buying valuable time to coordinate relief efforts and reduce humanitarian impacts.

Clearing rainforest for cattle farming is far worse for nature than previously thought, finds landmark bird survey

Research News - Tue, 22/07/2025 - 10:04

In the largest ever survey of rainforest birdlife, scientists have discovered that deforestation to create pastureland in Colombia is causing around 60% more damage to biodiversity than previously estimated.

How will AI change the way we conduct scientific research?

Research News - Mon, 21/07/2025 - 14:23

How might AI change the way we advance human knowledge? Could it change how universities like Cambridge carry out one of their core functions: research? Could AI be a technological transformation unlike anything we’ve seen before?

Teenage diaries from Stalin’s Russia reveal boys’ struggles with love, famine and Soviet pressure to achieve

Research News - Mon, 21/07/2025 - 05:00

Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, pressure to succeed and trying to fit in; but also experience of famine, exile and conscription under Stalin.

British Academy elects twelve Cambridge researchers to Fellowship in 2025

Research News - Fri, 18/07/2025 - 09:52

Twelve academics from the University of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social science

AI can accelerate search for more effective Alzheimer’s medicines by streamlining clinical trials

Research News - Thu, 17/07/2025 - 10:05

Scientists have used AI to re-analyse a clinical trial for an Alzheimer’s medicine, and identified a group of patients who responded to treatment. The work demonstrates that AI can inform the design of future clinical trials to make them more effective and efficient, accelerating the search for new medicines.

Lost English legend decoded, solving a Chaucerian mystery and revealing a medieval preacher’s meme

Research News - Wed, 16/07/2025 - 04:00

A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge scholars now believe the Song of Wade, a long lost treasure of English culture, was a chivalric romance not a monster-filled epic. The discovery solves the most famous...

Smarter targeted radiotherapy just as effective for low-risk breast cancer and reduces risk of side effects

Research News - Tue, 15/07/2025 - 09:00

Thousands of women who undergo radiotherapy for low-risk breast cancer could be spared some of the side effects of treatment after a study confirmed that more targeted treatments are just as effective at controlling the disease in the long term.

Astronomers find a giant hiding in the ‘fog’ around a young star

Research News - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 11:16

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc of gas and dust surrounding a young star.

At the heart of life-changing science

Research News - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 09:01

The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute is a thriving community of scientists and clinicians, the largest concentration of its kind in Europe, focused on tackling the world's biggest killers.

Banking on AI risks derailing net zero goals: report on energy costs of Big Tech

Research News - Thu, 10/07/2025 - 08:07

With countries such as the UK declaring ambitious goals for both AI leadership and decarbonisation, a new report suggests that AI could drive a 25-fold increase in the global tech sector’s energy use by 2040.

Seaside more likely to make us nostalgic than green places, new study finds

Research News - Wed, 09/07/2025 - 22:30

People in the UK and US are more likely to feel nostalgic towards places by the sea, lakes or rivers than they are towards fields, forests and mountains, according to new research. The study suggests that coastlines may have the optimal visual properties to make us feel positive emotions, and...

Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of human disease history

Research News - Wed, 09/07/2025 - 16:05

Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health today.

Putting women’s health in the spotlight

Research News - Wed, 02/07/2025 - 09:02

Cambridge researchers are working to undo a longstanding male bias in health research, to help drive more effective healthcare for all.

Gut microbes could protect us from toxic ‘forever chemicals’

Research News - Tue, 01/07/2025 - 10:07

Scientists have discovered that certain species of microbe found in the human gut can absorb PFAS - the toxic and long-lasting ‘forever chemicals.’ They say boosting these species in our gut microbiome could help protect us from the harmful effects of PFAS.

Patient with debilitating inherited condition receives new approved treatment on the NHS in Europe first

Research News - Fri, 27/06/2025 - 08:30

A teenager who has lost family members including her mother because of a rare genetic hereditary illness has become the first patient in the UK and Europe to have a new treatment developed by Cambridge researchers and approved for use on the NHS.

Patient with debilitating inherited condition receives new approved treatment on the NHS in Europe first

Research News - Fri, 27/06/2025 - 00:01

A teenager who has lost family members including her mother because of a rare genetic hereditary illness has become the first patient in the UK and Europe to have a new treatment developed by Cambridge researchers and approved for use on the NHS.