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Collage imagining a challenging 'Active Urbanism' route applied to Sermon Lane in London
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Pedestrians choose healthy obstacles over boring pavements, study finds

5 December 2022
Up to 78% of walkers would take a more challenging route featuring obstacles such as balancing beams, stepping stones and high steps, research has found. The findings suggest that providing ‘Active Landscape’ routes in urban areas could help tackle an 'inactivity pandemic' and improve health outcomes.
Silvia Vignolini (left), Rachel Oliver (right)
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Two Cambridge researchers awarded Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies

1 December 2022
Professor Rachel Oliver and Professor Silvia Vignolini from the University of Cambridge have been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. Each award is worth £2.5 million over ten years to develop emerging technologies with high potential to deliver economic and social benefits to the UK.
Woman checking her smart watch and mobile phone after run
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Fitness levels can be accurately predicted using wearable devices – no exercise required

1 December 2022
Cambridge researchers have developed a method for measuring overall fitness accurately on wearable devices – and more robustly than current consumer smartwatches and fitness monitors – without the wearer needing to exercise.
Woman checking her smart watch and mobile phone after run
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Fitness levels accurately predicted using wearable devices – no exercise required

1 December 2022
Cambridge researchers have developed a method for measuring overall fitness accurately on wearable devices – and more robustly than current consumer smartwatches and fitness monitors – without the wearer needing to exercise.
Young children in Ethiopia
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COVID has 'ruptured' social skills of the world’s poorest children, study suggests

30 November 2022
Two interlinked studies, involving 8,000 primary pupils altogether, indicate children lost at least a third of a year in learning during lockdown.
Burmese tree shrew ( Tupaia belangeri ) in Planckendael by Vassil. Courtesy of Wikimedia commons
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New study suggests climate change may be affecting animal body size

29 November 2022
A new study finds treeshrews increase in size in warmer settings, contrary to established norms.
Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the universe.
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Non-detection of key signal allows astronomers to determine what the first galaxies were – and weren’t – like

28 November 2022
Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first astrophysical studies of the period in the early Universe when the first stars and galaxies formed, known as the cosmic dawn.
Researcher holding a mussel
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Mussel survey reveals alarming degradation of River Thames ecosystem since the 1960s

28 November 2022
Scientists replicated a 1964 River Thames survey and found that mussel numbers have declined by almost 95%, with one species – the depressed river mussel – completely gone.
Hands of senior man with cannulae and band-aid being in intensive care
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Blood thinning drug to treat recovery from severe COVID-19 is not effective

28 November 2022
A drug used to reduce the risk of blood clots does not help patients recovering from moderate and severe COVID-19, despite this approach being offered to patients, a UK-wide trial, led by Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the University of Cambridge has found.
Young people in class
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Most young people’s well-being falls sharply in first years of secondary school

23 November 2022
Research based on data from 11,000 students charted an across-the-board fall in well-being, regardless of circumstances, between ages 11 and 14.

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