An algorithm designed by Professor John Daugman is the basis of all publicly deployed iris recognition systems across the world. Around 1.5 billion people have been enrolled onto iris pattern ...

Policies aimed at addressing the migrant crisis need to take into account the serious mental health issues faced by refugees and asylum seekers, say researchers at the University of Cambridge as they ...

Ovarian cancer is an important and complex disease with poor outcomes, and we believe this application would help us deal with its complexity Our selection of the week's biggest Cambridge research ...

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, ...

An Alice in ‘Language Wonderland’ adventure; a ‘Lost in Translation’ untranslatable word challenge; a pool of creatures carrying words loaned to English like emoji, rucksack and graffiti; a ‘language ...

Some of the most deprived areas in England are located in the eastern region. A bleak future can face those who are unemployed, in debt and left behind by the digital world. A programme called New ...

How research partnerships are offering innovative approaches to make the most of the East of England’s assets and tackle its more pressing challenges.

Against a global backdrop of rising energy demands and finite resources, Rihab Khalid set out to understand how buildings can become more energy efficient. As a result, she now advocates for building ...

AI can do in seconds what might take a team of experts a year. This is why we must harness it to reverse the damage we’ve done to the planet. Anil Madhavapeddy explains. We need to act fast to ...

What if markets rewarded sustainability? The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) wants to rewrite the rules of the global economy to make this happen. For over three decades CISL ...

Gabriel is an active research expert in human exposure science with specific interests in addressing air pollution in rapidly urbanising cities in Africa and other LMICs through a) increasing ...

Nobody needs reminding that just a few years ago we were all plunged into a state of maximal uncertainty. We didn’t know what was going on, we couldn’t predict what would happen next, and the ...