Society
Professor Joya Chatterji awarded Wolfson History Prize 2024
03 Dec 2024Chatterji wins for Shadows at Noon , her genre-defying history of South Asia during the 20th century.
Report highlights University’s under-researched African collections
03 Dec 2024The University's collections include an estimated 350,000 artefacts, alongside natural history specimens and human/ancestral remains, from Africa...
Marking a milestone in English language exams
02 Dec 2024100 million Cambridge English exams and tests have been taken around the world since 1913, according to figures from Cambridge University Press...
Wildlife monitoring technologies used to intimidate and spy on women, study finds
25 Nov 2024Camera traps and drones deployed by government authorities to monitor a forest in India are infringing on the privacy and rights of local women.
‘Manifest’ is Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year
20 Nov 2024The controversial global trend of manifesting has driven Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2024.
Northerners, Scots and Irish excel at detecting fake accents to guard against outsiders, study suggests
20 Nov 2024People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and...
Study uncovers earliest evidence of humans using fire to shape the landscape of Tasmania
15 Nov 2024Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier...
Trump voters believe American values and prosperity are ‘under threat’
11 Nov 2024Data also suggests that Democrat appeals to unity were popular across the board, but “politicians need to do more to understand why some people feel...
A radical economic transformation is the only way to save nature and ourselves
04 Nov 2024After two weeks of negotiations last week in Cali, Colombia, the COP16 biodiversity summit was suspended with no overall agreement on a path forward...
Hope and determination for nature
31 Oct 2024Cambridge Conservation Initiative Executive Director Melissa Leach offers insights on the COP16 Global Biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia as...
Are weight loss jabs the solution to the obesity crisis?
30 Oct 2024Almost two thirds of UK adults are overweight or obese. Are weight loss drugs the solution? Cambridge experts share their opinions.
Military musicians returning from Napoleonic wars invented Britain’s brass bands
30 Oct 2024Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain’s first brass bands earlier than previously thought, Dr Eamonn O'Keeffe has...