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Wildfires and heatwaves: Expert analysis on public health impact

With wildfires and a heatwave currently raging through Europe, Dr Kim van Daalen, Environmental Epidemiologist in the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge and Research ...
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Cambridge researchers contribute to AI Materials Foundry

Researchers from the University of Cambridge are contributing to the AI Materials Foundry, a global network launched by ...
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Study reveals why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays may cause cancer in some people but not others

Scientists have found the first direct evidence of the powerful role our genetic makeup plays in influencing our risk of ...
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Gender gap in predicted grades raises questions over their use in university admissions

A study of more than 350,000 students in England has found that teachers predict higher A-Level grades for girls than boys ...
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Scientists solve mystery behind contradictory behaviours of new weight-loss drugs

Cambridge scientists have solved the mystery of why both stimulating and blocking a particular ‘switch’ in the brain can help ...
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Eye contact helps infants ‘tune in’ to speaker’s brainwaves and learn language

Infants use eye contact with speakers to work out what to pay attention to and synchronise their brainwaves, helping them ...
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Alan Turing's story

Quotations from Alan Turing’s short story known as ‘Pryce’s Buoy’ The 5th and 6th pages of Alan Turing's unfinished and unpublished short story known as ...
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Cambridge and Google partner to facilitate AI research

The University of Cambridge and Google are building on their long-standing partnership with a multi-year research collaboration agreement and a Google grant for the University’s new Centre for ...
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We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher

A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that our evidence for what constitutes consciousness is far too limited to tell if or when artificial intelligence has made the leap – and a valid test for ...
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Earliest known piece of polyphonic music discovered

New research has uncovered the earliest known practical piece of polyphonic music, an example of the principles that laid the foundations of European musical tradition. Typically, polyphonic music is ...
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What makes a faster typist?

Crowdsourcing experiments that allow us to analyse how people interact with computers on a large scale are instrumental for identifying solution principles for the design of next-generation user ...
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AI Chatbots have shown they have an ‘empathy gap’ that children are likely to miss

New study proposes a framework for “Child Safe AI” following recent incidents which revealed that many children see chatbots as quasi-human and trustworthy. When not designed with children’s needs in ...