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Snow cover on Greek mountains has more than halved in four decades. The scale of decline has accelerated since the turn of the century

13 days ago cam.ac.uk environment

Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study

7 days ago cam.ac.uk media

Monkeys in Gibraltar have started eating soil to help them digest tourists' high-calorie junk food

22 days ago cam.ac.uk biology

Scientists find a new way coronaviruses can get into human cells: « We found a new coronavirus receptor in human cells ahead of any virus spillover into the human population

21 days ago cam.ac.uk biology coronavirus

Researchers turn recovered car battery acid and plastic waste into clean hydrogen: « Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor to break down hard-to-recycle forms of plastic waste using acid recovered from old car batteries

37 days ago cam.ac.uk engineering

Computer chip material inspired by the human brain could slash AI energy use

47 days ago cam.ac.uk ai brain

Patients regain weight rapidly after stopping weight loss drugs – but still keep off a quarter of weight lost

2 months ago cam.ac.uk health

Revealed: Face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave

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ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007)

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Getting children to play together cooperatively depends less on their personal social skills and more on what they are doing – especially if they are not friends – a study shows.

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Tetris gameplay treatment helps reduce traumatic flashbacks for frontline healthcare workers

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The Global Trust Register (1999)

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People prescribed new weight loss drugs like Ozempic may not receive sufficient nutritional guidance and be vulnerable to nutritional deficiencies and muscle loss

4 months ago cam.ac.uk health

The space and motion of communicating agents (2008) [pdf]

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Astronomers have identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a “razor-thin” string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic filament, 140 million light-years away.

5 months ago cam.ac.uk astronomy embedded

Life, Death and Mowing

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Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought Black Death to Europe

5 months ago cam.ac.uk europe

Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms

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Fossils reveal anacondas have been giants for over 12 million years

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Autistic adults are more likely to report suicide-related behaviours and psychological distress irrespective of previous traumatic experiences, according to new research.

5 months ago cam.ac.uk autism psychology

Deep brain stimulation – implants in the brain that act as a kind of ‘pacemaker’ – has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with treatment-resistant severe depression and anxiety in an ‘open label’ trial

5 months ago cam.ac.uk brain neuroscience trial

The Database of Faces

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Your ultra-HD TV may not be worth it. Scientists measure the resolution limit of the human eye

6 months ago cam.ac.uk biology

Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks

7 months ago lib.cam.ac.uk

Dementia linked to problems with brain’s waste clearance system: impaired movement of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) predicted risk of dementia later in life among 40,000 adults

6 months ago cam.ac.uk brain neuroscience

Preserving Digital Memory at the Festival of Floppies

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Study shows how domestic abusers build ‘trauma bonds’ with victims before violence begins

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New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells

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Brain cancer cells can be ‘reprogrammed’ to stop them from spreading

8 months ago cam.ac.uk brain cancer

A study has found adolescents become highly motivated to seek rewards after just a few hours of social isolation, making some people more prone to seek out rewards such as alcohol or recreational drugs

8 months ago cam.ac.uk psychology

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