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TV nutrition and health experts raise a glass to science at Cambridge’s Pint of Science festival
This year’s festival (18-20 May) will see twice as many events taking place across the city as last year and will be the largest edition of the festival since the pandemic. Included in the festival is a special one-off, sold-out event – A Conversation on Nutrition and Health (7:30pm, 3 June, Cambridge Junction). There, broadcasters Professor Chris van Tulleken (author of Ultra-Processed People) and Professor Giles Yeo (author of Why Calories Don’t Count) join Dr Saliha Mahmood-Ahmed (2017 winne...
Support local people to protect world’s nature, new report urges, as deadline for global conservation target looms
For better or worse, a huge number of people will be affected by efforts to achieve ‘30x30’ - the internationally-agreed conservation goal to protect and conserve at least 30% of the world’s land and seas by 2030. How many people, and who they are, will depend on which aspects of nature are prioritised for protection - but in all scenarios this human context must be a key consideration if plans are to succeed for both people and nature. That’s the message of a new report published in the journa...
Celebrating Cambridge as the birthplace of modern football
Cambridge University, United Football Club and City Council have come together at the University’s Grange Road sports ground to celebrate Cambridge as the birthplace of modern football and to look ahead to a future of greater community engagement, inclusion and participation in sport across the city. In 1848 a group of students from Cambridge University wrote down a set of 11 rules for football and nailed these ‘Cambridge Rules’ to the trees surrounding Parker’s Piece. This was the first time t...
Children in poorer countries face almost sixfold higher risk of dying after emergency surgery
The research, published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, analysed 237 children aged 18 and under who underwent trauma laparotomy – emergency surgery for severe abdominal injuries – in 85 hospitals across 32 countries. This is one of the largest international studies to date to examine this type of emergency surgery in children. Traumatic injuries, including those caused by road traffic accidents and violence, are among the leading causes of death and disability in children and adolescen...
Doctors favour explaining anxiety to patients as a human evolution ‘success story’
Mental health clinicians are over five times more likely to see evolutionary explanations of anxiety as helpful for their patients, rather than the genetic approaches currently taught to trainee doctors and psychiatrists in the UK and US, a new study shows.* Research led by the University of Cambridge also found that clinicians across the UK and Ireland are three times more likely to rate a human evolution perspective on anxiety as useful for their own practice and understanding, compared to he...
Deaf opera singer welcomes new Cambridge-led cochlear implant trial
The UK trial will provide bilateral cochlear implants (cochlear implants on both sides) to some profoundly deaf adults. The results will be used to review NHS guidance for the provision of implants to adults. Each year over 1,000 adults in the UK receive cochlear implants to restore their hearing. Under NHS guidance, adults currently only receive a single (unilateral) implant, yet evidence suggests having two could offer significant improvements in prospects and quality of life and may now be c...
Almost a minute to midnight: Cambridge helps launch open course on nuclear weapons as global tensions rise
An open-source online textbook and course on the current state of nuclear weapons, along with possible futures and global annihilation potential, has been launched by the University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), at a time when nuclear sabre-rattling is firmly back in the headlines. At the heart of the new course is an examination of how these weapons shape today’s security environment, from geopolitical alliances to the potential for cyber-attacks on warhead facilities, and...
Unseen Peter Shaffer play revealed at Trinity
Trinity College is celebrating the centenary of the birth of twin brothers Peter Shaffer (1926-2016) and Anthony Shaffer (1926-2001) who both studied at Trinity and went on to become award-winning playwrights. Peter bequeathed his substantial archive of playscripts, correspondence and photographs to Trinity College. PhD student James Critchley came across the unstaged play Our Lady of the Volcano in the archive, while studying Shaffer’s first play, Five Finger Exercise. The play had been catalo...
Carbon credits have enabled vital protection of tropical forests, despite being oversold tenfold
This is despite the study confirming that almost eleven times more carbon credits were issued from the REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) voluntary carbon market than was justified. Tropical forests are an invaluable global asset under increasing threat, and carbon markets have the potential to contribute substantial funds to their protection. The researchers say future projects must ensure the claimed impacts reflect real reductions in deforestation: the REDD+ carbon...
Snow cover on Greek mountains has more than halved in four decades, study finds
An international team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, used a combination of satellite imagery, climate data, terrain maps, and artificial intelligence to analyse how rising temperatures in the Mediterranean region have affected snow cover on the mountains of Greece – a region that is far less studied than other mountain ranges of Europe, such as the Alps or Pyrenees. Using the tool they developed, called snowMapper, the researchers found that snow cover has declined by 58% i...
Racism and socioeconomic stress may alter pregnancy biology, leaving black women nearly three times more likely to die
These altered physiological processes may lead to higher rates of preeclampsia in black women, and higher rates of preterm birth and fetal growth restriction in black babies, compared to white women and their babies. In a major review of published studies, the researchers looked at a range of processes that are vital in the body during pregnancy - including the control of inflammation, and blood flow to the developing fetus. They found these processes are often altered in ways linked to poorer...
Deep-ocean heat has been marching closer to Antarctica, study reveals
The study, led by the University of Cambridge with collaborators from the University of California and published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, compiled long-term ocean measurements collected by ships and robotic floating devices to show that a warm mass called circumpolar deep water has expanded and shifted toward the Antarctic continental shelf over the past 20 years. Previously, scientists hadn’t had enough ocean observations to detect the warming trend. “It’s concerning...
Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women
Researchers led by the University of Cambridge analysed 411 advertisements from 88 licensed gambling operators in Ireland and found that young men were reached 2.3 times more than women across Meta platforms including Facebook and Instagram, even if the ads were not directly targeting men. The age group most exposed to gambling advertising was 25 to 34-year-olds, who accounted for over a third of all unique accounts reached, a total of more than 6.2 million impressions. The results are reported...
Deforestation policies are failing to protect against a potentially bigger threat to the Brazilian Amazon
But things are changing, and fast. “2024 was the most extreme year for fires,” Antonio said. “I had never seen anything like it. The forest burned like dry pasture – it was frightening for those of us who risk our lives to protect it.” What Antonio and his fellow firefighters are witnessing on the ground has been backed up by a new study. An international team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, have found that the policies that helped reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazo...
Oxford University Press announces agreement to acquire Karger - Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press announces agreement to acquire Karger Oxford University Press
From An-Najah University to Oxford Horizons… Student Omar Rabi from the College of Medicine and Allied Medical Sciences Completes Clinical Training at the John Radcliffe Hospital in the United Kingdom - وكالة صدى نيوز
From An-Najah University to Oxford Horizons… Student Omar Rabi from the College of Medicine and Allied Medical Sciences Completes Clinical Training at the John Radcliffe Hospital in the United Kingdom وكالة صدى نيوز
Where was My Oxford Year filmed? All the historic landmarks behind Netflix's latest romance - Time Out Worldwide
Where was My Oxford Year filmed? All the historic landmarks behind Netflix's latest romance Time Out Worldwide
DigiForest: Transforming forest management with robotics - University of Oxford
DigiForest: Transforming forest management with robotics University of Oxford
Nature protection and recovery - University of Oxford
Nature protection and recovery University of Oxford
Food, water and agriculture - University of Oxford
Food, water and agriculture University of Oxford