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

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

Cambridge University News • cambridge
yesterday ~7 min

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

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

Cambridge University News • cambridge
July 9, 2025 ~4 min


Gut microbes could protect us from toxic ‘forever chemicals’

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

Cambridge University News • cambridge
July 1, 2025 ~5 min

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

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

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 27, 2025 ~6 min

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

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

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 27, 2025 ~6 min

AI art protection tools still leave creators at risk, researchers say

Artists urgently need stronger defences to protect their work from being used to train AI models without their consent.  

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 24, 2025 ~6 min

Rubin Observatory reveals first images

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a new scientific facility that will bring the night sky to life like never before using the largest camera ever built, has

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 23, 2025 ~4 min

Cosmic signal from the very early universe will help astronomers detect the first stars

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the universe’s

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 20, 2025 ~5 min


Placenta and hormone levels in the womb may have been key driver in human evolution

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioural traits that

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 20, 2025 ~6 min

Learning to thrive in diverse African habitats allowed early humans to spread across the world

Before the ‘Out of Africa’ migration that led our ancestors into Eurasia and beyond, human populations learned to adapt to new and challenging habitats

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 18, 2025 ~5 min

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