Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women
28 April 2026Gambling companies are reaching young men – the group most likely to exhibit problem gambling behaviour – on social media at more than double the...
Deforestation policies are failing to protect against a potentially bigger threat to the Brazilian Amazon
27 April 2026Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon since 2019, he works...
Tolls saved Britain from pothole hell in the Industrial Revolution
23 April 2026The ‘turnpike’ toll road system deserves far more credit for improving roads in 18th-century England and Wales, a new study argues. Analysis of nearly 100...
Malaria shaped the distribution of early humans across Africa
22 April 2026A new study suggests that malaria influenced where early humans lived in sub-Saharan Africa between around 74,000 and 5,000 years ago, fragmenting populations and influencing...
Scientists find a new way coronaviruses can get into human cells
22 April 2026An international team of researchers has identified an East African bat coronavirus capable of entering human cells.
Damage to brain’s white matter may play key role in neurodegenerative disease, and could be target for future treatments
22 April 2026Damage to white matter in the brain can trigger features associated with neurodegenerative disease, Cambridge researchers have discovered in a new study published in the...
Monkeys learn to eat soil so they can tolerate high-calorie junk food
22 April 2026Gibraltar’s famous macaques have started eating soil, a behaviour linked to their access to tourist snacks, according to a new study.
Professor Simon Conway Morris receives 2026 Templeton Prize
21 April 2026Professor Simon Conway Morris, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences and Fellow of St John’s College, has received the Templeton...
‘Racism infiltrates every aspect of medicine’: New ‘blueprint’ for anti-racist healthcare in the UK launched
20 April 2026The first medical textbook on anti-racist healthcare, launching in Parliament on Monday, warns that ethnic inequalities still run deep throughout UK medicine. Its authors argue...
Gates Cambridge Class of 2026
16 April 2026The founder of a children’s health centre from Botswana, an award-winning Nigerian author and a theoretical cosmologist are among those selected as Gates Cambridge Scholars...