Doctors favour explaining anxiety to patients as a human evolution ‘success story’
07 May 2026First major RCT on evolutionary psychiatry finds mental health clinicians are far more likely to say describing anxiety as an evolved survival...
Can we feed the world without breaking the planet?
06 May 2026The global food system is more productive than ever, but it's pushing natural systems out of balance in the extreme. Can science help farmers produce...
Almost a minute to midnight: Cambridge helps launch open course on nuclear weapons as global tensions rise
05 May 2026The new Director of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk warns that a new nuclear arms race may be underway, as more countries consider or...
Carbon credits have enabled vital protection of tropical forests, despite being oversold tenfold
30 Apr 2026A major analysis led by the University of Cambridge has found that many REDD+ projects achieved meaningful reductions in forest loss - offering real...
Racism and socioeconomic stress may alter pregnancy biology, leaving black women nearly three times more likely to die
28 Apr 2026A University of Cambridge study has found that stresses such as systemic racism and socioeconomic disadvantage may sensitise key processes in the...
Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women
28 Apr 2026Gambling companies are reaching young men – the group most likely to exhibit problem gambling behaviour – on social media at more than double the...
Cambridge academics elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
27 Apr 2026Five academics from the University of Cambridge have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Tolls saved Britain from pothole hell in the Industrial Revolution
23 Apr 2026The ‘turnpike’ toll road system deserves far more credit for improving roads in 18th-century England and Wales, a new study argues. Analysis of...
Malaria shaped the distribution of early humans across Africa
22 Apr 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...
Monkeys learn to eat soil so they can tolerate high-calorie junk food
22 Apr 2026Gibraltar’s famous macaques have started eating soil, a behaviour linked to their access to tourist snacks, according to a new study.
‘Racism infiltrates every aspect of medicine’: New ‘blueprint’ for anti-racist healthcare in the UK launched
20 Apr 2026The first medical textbook on anti-racist healthcare, launching in Parliament on Monday, warns that ethnic inequalities still run deep throughout UK...
The researcher analysing far-right rhetoric on Facebook
16 Apr 2026Raphael Hernandes, a PhD student at Cambridge Digital Humanities and Selwyn College, is a researcher and data journalist specialising in AI...