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


New open-source platform allows users to evaluate performance of AI-powered chatbots

Researchers have developed a platform for the interactive evaluation of AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT. 

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 4, 2024 ~7 min

New Cambridge-developed resources help students learn how maths can help tackle infectious diseases

Cambridge mathematicians have developed a set of resources for students and teachers that will help them understand how maths can help tackle infectious

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 19, 2024 ~5 min

New Cambridge-developed resources bring infectious diseases into the maths classroom

Cambridge mathematicians have developed a set of resources for students and teachers that will help them understand how maths can help tackle infectious

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 19, 2024 ~5 min

Swarming cicadas, stock traders, and the wisdom of the crowd

The springtime emergence of vast swarms of cicadas can be explained by a mathematical model of collective decision-making with similarities to models

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 1, 2024 ~5 min

Mathematical paradox demonstrates the limits of AI

Humans are usually pretty good at recognising when they get things wrong, but artificial intelligence systems are not. According to a new study, AI generally

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 17, 2022 ~7 min

Four Cambridge researchers recognised in the 2022 Breakthrough Prizes

Four University of Cambridge researchers – Professors Shankar Balasubramanian, David Klenerman, Suchitra Sebastian and Jack Thorne – have been recognised by

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 9, 2021 ~8 min


How accurate were early expert predictions on COVID-19, and how did they compare to the public?

Who made more accurate predictions about the course of the COVID-19 pandemic – experts or the public? A study from the University of Cambridge has found that

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 5, 2021 ~6 min

Through the looking glass: artificial ‘molecules’ open door to ultrafast devices

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Skoltech in Russia have shown that polaritons, the quirky particles that may end up running the quantum

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 3, 2021 ~4 min

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