Eisner leads the Medieval Murder Maps, a digital resource that plots crime scenes based on translations of the coroners’ rolls, mainly from the 14 th century. The project has produced maps for London, ...

Anxiety over income and unfair feedback dominates working lives of delivery riders, drivers and “digital labour” workers in ...

Chancellor’s Dialogues is part of a series of dialogues which encourage ‘disagreeing well’ and explore different perspectives on some of the most difficult issues of our time.

Two groups involving researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences are among nine teams to have ...

A machine learning algorithm developed by Cambridge scientists was able to correctly identify in 97 cases out of 100 whether or not an individual had coeliac disease based on their biopsy, new ...

A combination of two drugs could improve outcomes and reduce the need for toxic chemotherapy for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL), the commonest cancer in childhood and one that can be ...

A pivotal clinical trial of a 'pill-on-a-thread' test, which will decide if it becomes a new screening programme for oesophageal cancer, has welcomed its first participants. The BEST4 Screening trial ...

“Our research identified a genetic variation in naked mole-rats that means acid acts like an anaesthetic to their nerves,” says Smith, Director of the Naked Mole Rat Initiative in the University of ...

Laura Broutier reaches into the incubator and takes out a culture plate with 24 separate wells, each containing a pale pink liquid. “If you look closely, you can see the dots there,” she says, ...

A new report by Dealroom shows that Cambridge is, for its size, the most innovative city in the UK. Globally, it ranks fourth ...

We need to change our national screening programme so we can make sure more cancers are diagnosed early, giving many more women a much better chance of survival ...