Remarkable squirting mussels captured on film
Cambridge researchers have observed a highly unusual behaviour in the endangered freshwater mussel, Unio crassus.
March 11, 2023 • ~2 min
First wiring map of insect brain complete
Researchers have built the first ever map showing every single neuron and how they’re wired together in the brain of the fruit fly larva.
March 10, 2023 • ~5 min
Hunter-gatherer childhoods may offer clues to improving education and wellbeing in developed countries
Hunter-gatherers can help us understand the conditions that children may be psychologically adapted to because we lived as hunter-gatherers for 95% of our
March 8, 2023 • ~9 min
Phone-based measurements provide fast, accurate information about the health of forests
Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses computer vision techniques to accurately measure trees almost five times faster than traditional, manual
March 7, 2023 • ~5 min
Rewarding accuracy instead of partisan pandering reduces political divisions over the truth
Researchers argue that the findings hold lessons for social media companies and the “perverse incentives” driving political polarisation online.
March 6, 2023 • ~6 min
Social media posts around solar geoengineering ‘spill over’ into conspiracy theories
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have analysed more than 800,000 tweets and found that negative emotions expressed about geoengineering – the idea
Feb. 28, 2023 • ~6 min
Voluntary UK initiatives to phase out toxic lead shot for pheasant hunting have had little impact
Three years into a five-year pledge to completely phase out lead shot in UK game hunting, a Cambridge study finds that 94% of pheasants on sale for human
Feb. 27, 2023 • ~5 min
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