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Hunter-gatherers can help us understand the conditions that children may be psychologically adapted to because we lived as hunter-gatherers for 95% of our evolutionary history. Paying greater attention to hunter-gatherer childhoods may…

Scientists from the University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago have founded the Origins Federation, which will advance our understanding of the emergence and early evolution of life, and its…

Researchers have built the first ever map showing every single neuron and how they’re wired together in the brain of the fruit fly larva.Now we can start gaining a mechanistic understanding of how the brain works.Marta ZlaticThis will help…

Cambridge researchers have observed a highly unusual behaviour in the endangered freshwater mussel, Unio crassus.Who'd have thought that a mussel, that doesn't even have a head or a brain, knows to move to the river margin and squirt jets…

A delegation, led by the Acting Vice-Chancellor, Dr Anthony Freeling, was at Buckingham Palace on Thursday, 9 March to deliver a Loyal Address to HM the King.The University of Cambridge was one of 27 Privileged Bodies – institutions and…

A team of student entrepreneurs who see algae as a potential business solution for reducing methane emissions from landfill and waste-water sites won the 2023 Cambridge Zero Climate Challenge after a nail-biting competition. The climate…

Robots can be useful as mental wellbeing coaches in the workplace – but perception of their effectiveness depends in large part on what the robot looks like.Our perceptions of how robots should look or behave might be holding back the…

In the search for life elsewhere in the Universe, scientists have traditionally looked for planets with liquid water at their surface. But, rather than flowing as oceans and rivers, much of a planet’s water can be locked in rocks deep…

More donated hearts could be suitable for transplantation if they are kept functioning within the body for a short time following the death of the donor, new research has concluded.Patients who receive a transplant live on average a…

Underwater waves deep below the ocean’s surface – some as tall as 500 metres – play an important role in how the ocean stores heat and carbon, according to new research.Turbulence plays a key role in how much carbon and heat gets absorbed…