Wildlife monitoring technologies used to intimidate and spy on women, study finds

Camera traps and drones deployed by government authorities to monitor a forest in India are infringing on the privacy and rights of local women.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 25, 2024 ~5 min

Award-winning broadcaster Hannah Fry joins Cambridge as Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics

Professor Hannah Fry, mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning science presenter and host of popular podcasts and television shows, will join the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 22, 2024 ~4 min


Award-winning broadcaster Hannah Fry joins Cambridge as Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics

Professor Hannah Fry, mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning science presenter and host of popular podcasts and television shows, will join the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 22, 2024 ~4 min

Northerners, Scots and Irish excel at detecting fake accents to guard against outsiders, study suggests

People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and Essex,

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 20, 2024 ~8 min

A peek inside the box that could help solve a quantum mystery

An elusive particle that first formed in the hot, dense early universe has puzzled physicists for decades. Following its discovery in 2003, scientists began

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 19, 2024 ~6 min

Study uncovers earliest evidence of humans using fire to shape the landscape of Tasmania

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier than

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 15, 2024 ~5 min

Study uncovers earliest evidence of humans using fire to shape the landscape of Tasmania

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier than

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 15, 2024 ~5 min

Time alone heightens ‘threat alert’ in teenagers – even when connecting on social media

Scientists say the findings might shed light on the link between loneliness and mental health conditions such as anxiety disorders, which are on the rise in

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 13, 2024 ~6 min


Gender inequality ingrained in global climate negotiations, say researchers

Climate governance is dominated by men, yet the health impacts of the climate crisis often affect women, girls, and gender-diverse people disproportionately,

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Nov. 11, 2024 ~9 min

Planting trees in the Arctic could make global warming worse, not better, say scientists

Tree planting has been widely touted as a cost-effective way of reducing global warming, due to trees’ ability to store large quantities of carbon from the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 7, 2024 ~6 min

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