Interactive tool helps people decide how best to protect themselves and others from COVID-19

Is it risky to sing in a choir? What are the risks of eating in a small restaurant? How much difference does it make to open windows or clean surfaces? New

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Dec. 2, 2021 ~5 min

How uncertainty can impair our ability to make rational decisions – new research

High levels of uncertainty can make us obsessive compulsive, causing physical changes in the brain.

Aleya Aziz Marzuki, PhD Candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge • conversation
Nov. 30, 2021 ~8 min


Two-metre COVID-19 rule is ‘arbitrary measurement’ of safety

A new study has shown that the airborne transmission of COVID-19 is highly random and suggests that the two-metre rule was a number chosen from a risk

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 23, 2021 ~5 min

Real-time drone intent monitoring could enable safer use of drones and prevent a repeat of 2018 Gatwick incident

Researchers have developed a real-time approach that can help prevent incidents like the large-scale disruption at London’s Gatwick Airport in 2018, where

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 15, 2021 ~6 min

Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant were more likely to be admitted to hospital compared to patients with Alpha variant

Largest study to date analysing more than 40,000 COVID-19 cases (including a combination of vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals) confirmed by virus genome

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Aug. 31, 2021 ~4 min

Experiment evaluates the effect of human decisions on climate reconstructions

The first double-blind experiment analysing the role of human decision-making in climate reconstructions has found that it can lead to substantially different

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 7, 2021 ~6 min

How accurate were early expert predictions on COVID-19, and how did they compare to the public?

Who made more accurate predictions about the course of the COVID-19 pandemic – experts or the public? A study from the University of Cambridge has found that

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 5, 2021 ~6 min

Happiness: why learning, not rewards, may be the key – new research

Receiving a pay raise will make you feel happier only if it was bigger than what you had expected. Why? Because it helps you learn.

Robb Rutledge, Assistant Professor in Psychology, Yale University • conversation
Feb. 1, 2021 ~7 min


Keep calm and carry on – but how? A psychologist offers 10 tips to manage the uncertainty and stress of election aftermath

As uncertainty abounds and anxiety skyrockets, you've probably heard advice to be patient, stay calm and keep the faith. Here are 10 concrete tips to help you actually manage the stress.

Bethany Teachman, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia • conversation
Nov. 6, 2020 ~8 min

5 types of misinformation to watch out for while ballots are being counted – and after

Election misinformation typically involves false narratives of fraud that include out-of-context or otherwise misleading images and faulty statistics as purported evidence.

Renee DiResta, Research Manager of the Stanford Internet Observatory, Stanford University • conversation
Nov. 6, 2020 ~11 min

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