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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, and the fourth-oldest surviving university in the world.
A real fly (right) lands on a daisy petal next to the fake fly (left)

Deceptive daisy’s ability to create fake flies explained

University of Cambridge
Categories Life & Non-humans
Map of depth-integrated anthropogenic carbon Credit: Laura Cimoli/GLODAP

Giant underwater waves affect the ocean’s ability to store carbon

University of Cambridge
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Physics & Mathematics
Pigs on a farm Credit: Harriet Bartlett

New animal welfare scoring system could enable better-informed food and farming choices

University of Cambridge
Categories Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences
Children

Hunter-gatherer childhoods may offer clues to improving education and wellbeing in developed countries

University of Cambridge
Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences
Person walking, seen from the feet level

Just 11 minutes of daily exercise could prevent 1 in 10 early deaths

University of Cambridge
Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

The largest penguin that ever lived

University of Cambridge
Categories Life & Non-humans
U.S. Navy nuclear test, Bikini Atoll. Credit: Getty Images

Public awareness of ‘nuclear winter’ too low given current risks, argues expert

University of Cambridge
Categories Social Sciences
Cropped shot of an attractive young businesswoman sitting alone in her office and coughing as she suffers from a cold

Common heartburn drugs could speed up TB treatment

University of Cambridge
Categories Health
Researchers have found a way to create much stronger interactions between photons and electrons, in the process producing a hundredfold increase in the emission of light from a phenomenon called Smith-Purcell radiation. Credits:Courtesy of the researchers

A new path toward ‘quantum light’

University of Cambridge
Categories Physics & Mathematics
Graphic showing how microlensing was used to measure the mass of a white dwarf star.

Astronomers observe light bending around an isolated white dwarf

University of Cambridge
Categories Physics & Mathematics, Space
Low-cost blood pressure lowering drugs, statins and aspirin widely in the form of a single pill, also known as the polypill

Combined steroid and statin treatment could reduce ‘accelerated ageing’ in preterm babies

University of Cambridge
Categories Health
The brainwaves experiment set-up in the Adaptive Brain Lab, led by Prof Zoe Kourtzi, in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Psychology.

Tuning into brainwave rhythms speeds up learning in adults

University of Cambridge
Categories Brain & Behavior, Technology
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