UK policing: psychological damage among officers heightened by bad working conditions

Nationwide study of over 12,000 officers suggests rates of trauma-induced disorder Complex PTSD are exacerbated by factors such as too little time and support,

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 19, 2022 ~6 min

Offshore carbon storage deployment and research needs to scale up for UK to deliver net zero pledge, says report

The UK will need to step up research and deployment of new offshore carbon storage wells if it is to achieve the capacity required to deliver its net zero

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 19, 2022 ~6 min


Watching lithium in real time could improve performance of EV battery materials

Researchers have found that the irregular movement of lithium ions in next-generation battery materials could be reducing their capacity and hindering their

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 14, 2022 ~5 min

Scientists detect dementia signs as early as nine years ahead of diagnosis

Cambridge scientists have shown that it may be possible to spot signs of brain impairment in patients as early as nine years before they receive a diagnosis

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 13, 2022 ~5 min

Assessments of thinking skills may misrepresent poor, inner-city children in the US

Some of the assessment tools which measure children’s thinking skills in the US may have provided inaccurate information about poor, urban students because

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 12, 2022 ~6 min

Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’, researchers argue

Research highlights growing market in AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to bypass human bias to remove discrimination from hiring. 

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 10, 2022 ~6 min

Students in Rwanda confound pandemic predictions and head back to school

New data from Rwanda, and some of the first published on how COVID-19 has impacted school attendance in the Global South, suggest that a widely-predicted spike

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 7, 2022 ~6 min

Referrals to long COVID clinic fell by 79% following roll-out of the vaccine

Referrals to Cambridge’s long COVID clinic fell dramatically in the period August 2021 to June 2022, which researchers say is likely due to the successful

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 6, 2022 ~5 min


A new route to evolution: how DNA from our mitochondria works its way into our genomes

Scientists have shown that in one in every 4,000 births, some of the genetic code from our mitochondria – the ‘batteries’ that power our cells – inserts itself

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Oct. 5, 2022 ~6 min

Experts urge government to keep focus on levelling-up health

Experts are calling on the government to continue focusing on ‘levelling-up’ health, arguing that reducing the health gap is too important an agenda to abandon.

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Sept. 30, 2022 ~5 min

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