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 ...

'Taking pity of them for fear they should be starved to death for want of food [I] did table & receive the said three Children' - Anne Beesley (1671) Today, the UK faces a major retention and ...

A ten-year project to study and digitise some 80,000 cases recorded by two famous astrological physicians has opened a “wormhole” into the worries and desires of people who lived 400 years ago. Watch ...

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 ...

Something is very badly wrong. I had been gently drifting along the river, the sun gently setting and the sky a warming golden hue. As I slowly breathed in and out, my body had relaxed, my heart rate ...

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, ...

Dating from 1557-1775, nearly 270 files and rolls from the Isle of Ely Assizes court – where the region’s most serious crimes were tried – will be catalogued after a £40,000 gift by the Society to ...

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 ...

Thetford Forest is a unique 47,000-acre landscape straddling the border of Norfolk and Suffolk in the East of England. Cambridge Universityʼs Eleanor Tew is helping the Forestry Commission plan for ...

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 ...

Professor Kathy Niakan talks about why it’s vital to take a multidisciplined approach to understanding the urgent challenges posed by reproduction today. From exploring ancient ideas of generation to ...