Getting maximum calories in shortest time is the priority for bumblebees

Research has found that bumblebees make foraging choices to collect the most sugar from flowers in the shortest time – even if that means using more energy in

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 24, 2023 ~5 min

It’s high time for alliances to ensure supply chain security, researchers urge

The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the interconnected nature of global supply chains, and showed how a disruption in one part of the world can have global

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 19, 2023 ~6 min


Sustained, purposeful investment key to ‘leaving no girl behind’, either in education or beyond

A UK-funded programme to support out-of-school girls in low-income countries has significantly enhanced their learning, confidence, opportunities and

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 19, 2023 ~9 min

UK needs AI legislation to create trust so companies can ‘plug AI into British economy’ – report

Legislation regulating AI safety and transparency is needed, say researchers, so British industry and education can put resources into AI development with

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 16, 2023 ~5 min

Scientists begin building AI for scientific discovery using tech behind ChatGPT

An international team of scientists, including from the University of Cambridge, have launched a new research collaboration that will leverage the same

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 13, 2023 ~5 min

Simulations of ‘backwards time travel’ can improve scientific experiments

Physicists have shown that simulating models of hypothetical time travel can solve experimental problems that appear impossible to solve using standard physics.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 12, 2023 ~6 min

Latest Gaia data release reveals rare lenses, cluster cores and unforeseen science

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has released a goldmine of knowledge about our galaxy and beyond. Among other findings, the star surveyor has

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 10, 2023 ~10 min

Young children who are close to their parents are more likely to grow up kind, helpful and ‘prosocial’

Study using data from 10,000 people in the UK found that those who had a closer bond with their parents at age three tended to display more socially-desirable

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 9, 2023 ~7 min


Cambridge University receives $72 million gift for habitat restoration projects across Europe’s land and seas

The gift from Arcadia will support the next phase of the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme for the large-scale restoration of Europe’s most treasured

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 6, 2023 ~6 min

Vulnerability to different COVID-19 mutations depends on previous infections and vaccination, study suggests

A person’s immune response to variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on their previous exposure – and differences in the focus of

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Oct. 6, 2023 ~5 min

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