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CUAFC men's and women's football teams wear kit made of recycled plastic bottles
The men’s and women’s teams will tackle their annual Varsity matches in football kits made from 2,500 plastic bottles.
Mussel squirting a water jet
Cambridge researchers have observed a highly unusual behaviour in the endangered freshwater mussel, Unio crassus.
Map of the fruit fly brain
Researchers have built the first ever map showing every single neuron and how they’re wired together in the brain of the fruit fly larva.
Emily Mitchell, Didier Queloz, Kate Adamal, Carl Zimmer. Landscape with Milky way galaxy. Sunrise and Earth view from space with Milky way galaxy. (Elements of this image furnished by NASA).
Scientists from the University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago have founded the Origins Federation, which will advance our understanding of the emergence and early evolution of life, and its place in the cosmos.
Anastasia Christophilopoulou in the Fitzwilliam Museum beside a statue.
Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou (St John's 2003) began life as a gymnast, and sought a career that shared similar elements of physicality. Now, she is a classical archaeologist and curator of the new Islanders exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She tells us about why archaeology is relevant to a post-Brexit Britain, and the power of collaboration and inclusivity.
BaYaka camp in Congo. Image courtesy of Nikhil Chaudhary
Hunter-gatherers can help us understand the conditions that children may be psychologically adapted to because we lived as hunter-gatherers for 95% of our evolutionary history. Paying greater attention to hunter-gatherer childhoods may help economically developed countries improve education and wellbeing.
BaYaka camp in Congo. Image courtesy of Nikhil Chaudhary
Hunter-gatherers can help us understand the conditions that children may be psychologically adapted to because we lived as hunter-gatherers for 95% of our evolutionary history. Paying greater attention to hunter-gatherer childhoods may help economically developed countries improve education and wellbeing.
The Boat Race 2023 crews from Cambridge and Oxford University
The Cambridge and Oxford crews for The Boat Race 2023 have been announced.
Treetops seen from a low angle
Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses computer vision techniques to accurately measure trees almost five times faster than traditional, manual methods.
Researchers argue that the findings hold lessons for social media companies and the “perverse incentives” driving political polarisation online.

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