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Tolls saved Britain from pothole hell in the Industrial Revolution, diaries reveal
23 April 2026
The ‘turnpike’ toll road system deserves far more credit for improving roads in eighteenth-century England and Wales, a new study argues. Analysis of nearly 100...
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Malaria shaped the distribution of early humans across Africa
22 April 2026
A 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...
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Scientists find a new way coronaviruses can get into human cells
22 April 2026
An international team of researchers has identified an East African bat coronavirus capable of entering human cells.
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Damage to brain’s white matter may play key role in neurodegenerative disease, and could be target for future treatments
22 April 2026
Damage to white matter in the brain can trigger features associated with neurodegenerative disease, Cambridge researchers have discovered in a new study published today in...
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Monkeys learn to self-medicate with soil to help them digest junk food
22 April 2026
Gibraltar’s famous macaques have started eating soil, a behaviour linked to their access to tourist snacks, according to a new study.
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Professor Simon Conway Morris receives 2026 Templeton Prize
21 April 2026
Professor 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...
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‘Racism infiltrates every aspect of medicine’: New ‘blueprint’ for anti-racist healthcare in the UK launched
20 April 2026
The 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...
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Gates Cambridge Class of 2026
16 April 2026
The 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...
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The researcher analysing far-right rhetoric on Facebook
16 April 2026
Raphael Hernandes, a PhD student at Cambridge Digital Humanities and Selwyn College, is a researcher and data journalist specialising in AI, journalism, and society.
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Scientists confirm precursor to commonest form of oesophageal cancer – offering opportunities to catch the disease early
16 April 2026
Scientists have found the strongest evidence to date that a condition known as Barrett’s oesophagus is the starting point for all cases of oesophageal adenocarcinoma...
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