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Research led by the University of Cambridge and the RSPB shows that farming wetland-adapted crops on wetter peat - known as paludiculture - can support richer and more diverse bird communities than drained grassland.

Experts are warning that far from being over-diagnosed, people with ADHD are waiting too long for assessment, support and treatment.

A year after stopping taking weight loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy, people regain on average 60% of their lost weight - but beyond this, their weight regain plateaus, with individuals managing to keep off 25% of the weight lost to treatment, say researchers at the University of Cambridge. Drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy act like brakes on our appetite.

Cambridge scientists have shown that when tumours first emerge, interactions with healthy cells in the underlying supportive tissue determine their ability to survive, grow, and progress to advanced stages of disease. The way healthy tissue responds to the emergence of early tumours also plays a crucial role in whether disease develops Greta Skrupskelyte The study, carried out in mice and further validated using human tissue, may explain why some tiny, newly-formed tumours disappear, while others manage to survive and eventually grow into cancer.

Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land - in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors wishing to offset their impact on nature - could be an effective component of the emerging market for nature recovery, but will not work as a stand-alone approach.

Suicide in autistic people originates in the inequalities they face across their lives, starting in childhood, and spanning education to employment, and health and social care, a new study by a team at Cambridge and Bournemouth Universities has found.

Getting children to play together cooperatively depends less on their personal social skills and more on what they are doing - especially if they are not friends - a study shows.

A simple, digital intervention that includes mentally playing Tetris can dramatically reduce intrusive memories of trauma in a month, even to the point of being symptom-free after six months, new research has found. Healthcare workers across the world are recurrently exposed to traumatic events in the course of their work, impacting the mental and physical wellbeing of those who care for us when we are unwell Charlotte Summers Using 'mental rotation,' the treatment was also very effective at reducing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) more generally.

Scientists have identified a further twelve dog breeds as being at risk of Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome - a condition that can cause serious breathing problems - including the Pekingese,

AI stethoscope can help spot 'silent epidemic' of heart valve disease earlier than GPs, study suggests Artificial intelligence could help doctors detect serious heart valve disease years earlier, potentially saving thousands of lives, a new study suggests. Researchers led by the University of Cambridge analysed heart sounds from nearly 1,800 patients using an AI algorithm trained to recognise valve disease, a condition that often goes undiagnosed until it becomes life-threatening.

While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the Polymathic AI collaboration are trained using real scientific datasets.

Menopause is linked to reductions in grey matter volume in key brain regions as well as increased levels of anxiety and depression and difficulties with sleep, according to new research from the University of Cambridge.

The University of Cambridge is launching a new Institute aimed at tackling one of the biggest bottlenecks in UK medical research: turning promising laboratory discoveries into regulated devices that can be tested with patients.

A new initiative will harness the latest advances in artificial intelligence for weather prediction, with a goal of improving climate resilience and food security in West Africa.

Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest 'dead' galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole can slowly starve a galaxy rather than tear it apart. The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, used data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), to study a galaxy in the early universe - about three billion years after the Big Bang.

Cambridge researchers have discovered that an existing therapy which boosts protective immune cells in people who recently had heart attacks reduces blood vessel inflammation and may reduce the likelihood of future heart attacks.

People prescribed the new generation of weight loss drugs may not receive sufficient nutritional guidance to support safe and sustainable weight loss, leaving them vulnerable to nutritional deficiencies and muscle loss, say experts at UCL and the University of Cambridge.

Offering screening for neurodivergence to people detained by the police could help ensure access to appropriate support and fairer treatment in the criminal justice system, say Cambridge researchers.

1. Introduction The University of Cambridge Research Integrity Advisory Panel provides informal guidance on research integrity and good research practice.

Research into parental support needs is informing Cambridge Children's Hospital's commitment to provide a 'whole family' approach to care.

This checklist has been designed to assist supervisors of research students at the University of Cambridge to address issues of research integrity and good research practice as part of the supervision process.

Authorship provides credit for an individual's contributions to a study and carries accountability. There are no universally accepted standards for assigning authorship, and principles, customs and practices differ significantly from one discipline to another.

What is the Research Integrity Advisory Panel? The Research Integrity Advisory Panel was developed as a means to offer informal and discipline-specific advice and support for University of Cambridge

Allegations of misconduct in research are rare but the University takes them very seriously. The University is committed to ensuring that allegations of misconduct in research are investigated with all possible thoroughness and vigour.

Complex digital images of tissue samples that can take an experienced pathologist up to 20 minutes to annotate could be analysed in just one minute using a new AI tool developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

An AI tool that can analyse abnormalities in the shape and form of blood cells, and with greater accuracy and reliability than human experts, could change the way conditions such as leukaemia are diagnosed. Researchers have created a system called CytoDiffusion that uses generative AI - the same type of technology behind image generators such as DALL-E - to study the shape and structure of blood cells.

An ancient plant-fungus partnership has been revealed using advanced microscopy imaging, providing evidence of the mutually beneficial relationship that enabled plants to adapt to life on land. Our new technique is opening an exciting new window on life's earliest chapters. Raymond Wightman Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Natural History Museum, London have identified a new species of ancient symbiotic fungus preserved within a 407-million-year-old plant fossil from Scotland.

The UK's drive to net zero won't succeed on wind turbines and solar farms alone. The real bottleneck is moving that clean electricity from remote fields and offshore platforms to the homes, cities and industries that need it.

A minimally-invasive treatment for severe intervertebral disc disease in small dog breeds is now available at the University of Cambridge's Queen's Veterinary School Hospital - the only place in the UK currently providing the procedure.

Children and young people faced long-lasting and higher risks of rare heart and inflammatory complications after COVID-19 infection, compared to before or without an infection, according to new research. Meanwhile COVID-19 vaccination was only linked to a short-term higher risk of myocarditis and pericarditis.

Problems with the brain's waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep patterns and cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure increase the risk of dementia.

The 10 organisations in Great Britain that carry out the highest number of animal procedures - those used in medical, veterinary and scientific research - have released their annual statistics today.

Researchers have launched a public survey to help them unlock the secrets of vivid memory, and find ways to help us better recall past experiences  For the first time, cognitive neuroscientists are wo

A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, galaxies and black holes evolve. The 4MOST (4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope), mounted on the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope in Chile, achieved its 'first light' on 18 October 2025: a milestone marking the start of its scientific mission.

Researchers have demonstrated a new and sustainable way to make the chemicals that are the basis of thousands of products - from plastics to cosmetics - we use every day.

Scientists have identified an unusual type of brain cell that may play a vital role in progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), likely contributing to the persistent inflammation characteristic of the disease.