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Imperial College London Honors Donors for Their Support of Student Programs
Students, donors and academics came together on Wednesday 6 November to celebrate the generosity of those who support students at Imperial.
The Celebration of Student Support Event, Imperial’s flagship event honouring philanthropic giving…
Scientists Use ‘Palaeo-Robots’ to Simulate Fish Transition to Land
The transition from water to land is one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth. Now, a team of roboticists, palaeontologists and biologists is using robots to study how the ancestors of modern land animals…
Detailed London Study Finds More Airbnb Listings Drive Up Local Crime Rates
Rising numbers of houses and flats listed as short-term lets on Airbnb are associated with higher rates of crimes such as burglaries and street robberies right across London, according to the most detailed study of its kind.…
Cambridge Researchers Find Bilateral Brain Magnetic Stimulation Yields Fast Depression Relief
A type of therapy that involves applying a magnetic field to both sides of the brain has been shown to be effective at rapidly treating depression in patients for whom standard treatments have been ineffective.
Our accelerated…
Russian film industry to take center stage at the Dubai International Content Market, DICM
Twenty Russian film companies are set to present over 110 movies, TV series and animated films center stage for the media industry in the Middle East and North Africa – the Dubai International Content Market, DICM 2024, which will be held…
New AI Technology Accurately Detects Heart Murmurs in Dogs, Helping Diagnose Cardiac Issues Early
Researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm to accurately detect heart murmurs in dogs, one of the main indicators of cardiac disease, which affects a large proportion of some smaller breeds such as King Charles…
Glaucoma Drug Demonstrates Promise in Combatting Neurodegenerative Diseases, New Animal Study Shows
A drug commonly used to treat glaucoma has been shown in zebrafish and mice to protect against the build-up in the brain of the protein tau, which causes various forms of dementia and is implicated in Alzheimer’s disease.…
New Collaboration Between Greater Manchester and Cambridge Aims to Accelerate Economic Development
On Tuesday 5 November 2024, Greater Manchester’s Mayor Andy Burnham visited Cambridge to celebrate and further cement a groundbreaking partnership between the two cities' innovation ecosystems. The collaboration, which was officially…
Study Finds Planting Trees in Arctic May Increase Global Warming Instead of Reducing It
Tree planting has been widely touted as a cost-effective way of reducing global warming, due to trees’ ability to store large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere.
But, writing in the journal Nature Geoscience,…
Researchers Use AI to Tailor and Improve Diabetes Care for Bradford Patients
The team from the Centre for Assuring Autonomy at the University of York developed an AI-based clinical decision-support model based on 1.4 million records of diabetes patient data from the Bradford region.
It’s hoped that the research…