Growing wildflowers on disused urban land can damage bee health

Wildflowers growing on land previously used for buildings and factories can accumulate lead, arsenic and other metal contaminants from the soil, which are

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 16, 2025 ~5 min

Growing wildflowers on disused urban land can damage bee health

Wildflowers growing on land previously used for buildings and factories can accumulate lead, arsenic and other metal contaminants from the soil, which are

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 16, 2025 ~5 min


Harmful effects of digital tech – the science ‘needs fixing’, experts argue

From social media to AI, online technologies are changing too fast for the scientific infrastructure used to gauge its public health harms, say two leaders in

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 10, 2025 ~7 min

Scientists create 'metal detector' to hunt down tumours

Cambridge researchers have created a ‘metal detector’ algorithm that can hunt down vulnerable tumours, in a development that could one day revolutionise the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 10, 2025 ~6 min

Handheld device could transform heart disease screening

Researchers have developed a handheld device that could potentially replace stethoscopes as a tool for detecting certain types of heart disease.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 8, 2025 ~5 min

Researchers demonstrate the UK’s first long-distance ultra-secure communication over a quantum network

Researchers have successfully demonstrated the UK’s first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network, including the UK’s

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 8, 2025 ~6 min

One in 3,000 people at risk of punctured lung from faulty gene – almost 100 times higher than previous estimate

As many as one in 3,000 people could be carrying a faulty gene that significantly increases their risk of a punctured lung, according to new estimates from

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 8, 2025 ~5 min

Play 'humanises' paediatric care and should be key feature of a child-friendly NHS – report

The Cambridge report argues that play should be a recognised component of children’s healthcare in the Government’s forthcoming 10-year plan for the NHS.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 31, 2025 ~7 min


Farewell, Gaia: spacecraft operations come to an end

The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down, after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets

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

Webb Telescope sees galaxy in mysteriously clearing fog of early Universe

Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early Universe. The surprise finding is challenging researchers to explain how

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 26, 2025 ~5 min

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