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Carrots and sticks fail to change behaviour in cocaine addiction
“Addiction does not happen overnight but develops from behaviour that has been repeated over and over again until individuals lose control,” said Dr Karen Ersche from the Department of Psychiatry, who...
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Cambridge alumni win 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
David Thouless (Trinity Hall, 1952), Duncan Haldane (Christ’s, 1970) and Michael Kosterlitz (Gonville and Caius, 1962) discovered unexpected behaviours of solid materials - and devised a mathematical...
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Meadow of dancing brittle stars shows evolution at work
Researchers have described a new species of brittle star, which are closely related to starfish, and showed how these sea creatures evolved in response to the rise of shell-crushing predators during...
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Cambridge in the 2018 New Year Honours List
Professor Sir Keith Peters, who was first honoured as a Knight Bachelor in the 1993 New Year’s Honours list, was awarded a GBE (Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire) for Services to the Advancement...
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Bridging the divide: philosophy meets science
The Templeton World Charity Foundation Project, spearheaded by Professor Sarah Coakley, the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, saw three postdoctoral researchers placed into science labs...
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Cambridge confers 2019 honorary degrees
The day is a ‘scarlet day’, on which doctors wear scarlet instead of their traditional black gowns, and the University’s Chancellor, The Lord Sainsbury of Turville, was present to preside over the...
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Women in STEM: Amy Rankine
I first developed an interest in astronomy at high school during a project run by the University of St Andrews. I grew up in a small town on the East coast of Scotland, not far from St Andrews and so...
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Cambridge University and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore...
The Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualised Cognition (CLIC) is a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), and is...
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Cambridge researcher named one of Top 50 Women in Engineering
Now in its sixth year, the 2021 WE50 celebrates the wealth of female talent within engineering and related disciplines. The annual celebration is aligned with International Women in Engineering Day...
View ArticleThe neurobiologist who grew ‘mini-brain’ tissues in a dish
When Madeline Lancaster’s attempt to grow neural stem cells ‘failed’ she had no idea that the floating balls of cells she saw in her petri dish were in fact miniature brain tissues. They would...
View ArticleThe cosmologist modelling the Universe with maths
Dr Tobias Baldauf likes nothing better than seeing an equation ‘cross reality’. His work is helping us to answer some of the remaining questions about the Universe.
View ArticleNRICH, Cambridge’s flagship maths outreach project, turns 25
NRICH spent the last two years in emergency rescue mode, helping learners in lockdown. Its online resources attracted over a million page views per week. Now celebrating their 25th anniversary, the...
View ArticleCambridge researchers elected as members of European Molecular Biology...
Five Cambridge researchers join the community of more than 1,900 leading life scientists in Europe and beyond today as the European Molecular Biology Organisation announces its newly-elected Members.
View ArticleBig data's hidden cost
As the climate emergency and cost-of-living crisis focus our minds on how to reduce energy, a group of scientists have highlighted the hidden environmental cost behind some of our major breakthroughs.
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Scientists explain emotional ‘blunting’ caused by common antidepressants
According to the NHS, more than 8.3 million patients in England received an antidepressant drug in 2021/22. A widely-used class of antidepressants, particularly for persistent or severe cases, is...
View ArticleBeethoven’s genome sequenced from locks of his hair
A Cambridge scientist has played a leading role in sequencing Ludwig van Beethoven’s genome, revealing clues to the composer’s health and family history.
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Exceptional scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine.The Society’s fundamental purpose, as it...
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Act now to prevent uncontrolled rise in carbon footprint of computational...
Writing in Nature Computational Science, researchers from the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge argue that the scientific community needs to act now if it is...
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Healthy lifestyle can help prevent depression – and new research may explain why
In research published today in Nature Mental Health, an international team of researchers, including from the University of Cambridge and Fudan University, looked at a combination of factors including...
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Problems with ‘pruning’ brain connections linked to adolescent mental health...
The findings, from an international collaboration, led by researchers in the UK, China and Germany, may help explain why people are often affected by more than one mental health disorder, and may in...
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