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University of Cambridge1 天
Medieval Murder Maps
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, ...
University of Cambridge4 天
Riders and drivers in the UK gig economy suffer anxiety over ratings and pay
Anxiety over income and unfair feedback dominates working lives of delivery riders, drivers and “digital labour” workers in ...
University of Cambridge18 天
Potential new treatment to tackle commonest form of childhood cancer
A combination of two drugs could improve outcomes and reduce the need for toxic chemotherapy for B-cell acute lymphoblastic ...
University of Cambridge5 天
Cambridge researchers awarded £7.5 million to build programmable plants
Two groups involving researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences are among nine teams to have ...
University of Cambridge1 年
Lab-grown ‘small blood vessels’ point to potential treatment for major cause of stroke ...
Despite the number of people affected worldwide by small vessel disease, we have little in the way of treatments because we don’t fully understand what damages the blood vessels and causes the disease ...
University of Cambridge9 个月
Children switch to walking and cycling to school after introduction of London’s Ultra-Low ...
Changing the way children travel to school can have significant effects on their levels of physical activity at the same time as bringing other co-benefits like improving congestion and air quality ...
University of Cambridge4 年
Cannabis farms are a modern slavery 'blind spot' for UK police, study suggests
Big questions remain about how the criminal justice system should ethically manage modern slavery victims who are also illegal immigrants involved in illegal activity ...
University of Cambridge6 个月
Wildlife monitoring technologies used to intimidate and spy on women, study finds
Nobody could have realised that camera traps put in the Indian forest to monitor mammals actually have a profoundly negative impact on the mental health of local women who use these spaces.
University of Cambridge1 年
Fish fed to farmed salmon should be part of our diet, too, study suggests
Making a few small changes to our diet around the type of fish that we eat can go a long way to changing some of these deficiencies and increasing the health of both ...
University of Cambridge1 年
Act now to prevent uncontrolled rise in carbon footprint of computational science
Science has transformed our understanding of the world around us and has led to great benefits to society. But this has come with a not-insignificant – and not always well understood – impact on the ...
University of Cambridge5 个月
Loneliness linked to higher risk of heart disease and stroke and susceptibility to infection
More and more people of all ages are reporting feeling lonely. We need to find ways to tackle this growing problem and keep people connected to help them stay healthy ...
University of Cambridge2 天
Where do we draw the line?
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.