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Less than half of mums meet the recommended levels of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity - and mothers of younger children manage to do the least, Cambridge and Southampton researchers have found.

Cambridge researchers have highlighted how lack of access to a computer was linked to poorer mental health among young people and adolescents during COVID-19 lockdowns.

Cambridge researchers are taking part in the world's first clinical trial of red blood cells that have been grown in a laboratory for transfusion into another person.

Family CEOs are more likely to make employees feel positive about their workplace and stay longer, finds a new study. The stereotype of a family firm is one where nepotism is rife and talent goes unrewarded. Yet according to a new study co-authored by a Cambridge researcher, having a family CEO in charge can actually boost positive emotions in employees and lower voluntary turnover.

Researchers devise an audit to test whether police deployment of facial recognition poses a threat to fundamental human rights, and analyse three instances of technology use by British police - with all three failing to meet -minimum ethical and legal standards-.

Cambridge researchers will play a key role in clinical trials of a new treatment that involves transplanting healthy nerve cells into the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease.

Cambridge is among 12 institutions across the UK that will be working together to tackle the monkeypox outbreak, developing better diagnostic tests, identifying potential therapies and studying vaccine effectiveness and the virus- spread. Few would have predicted that monkeypox virus would be causing a global epidemic in 2022 Geoffrey Smith The consortium has received £2 million from the Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council and the Medical Research Council, both part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Nationwide study of over 12,000 officers suggests rates of trauma-induced disorder Complex PTSD are exacerbated by factors such as too little time and support, and lack of say over working hours.

The UK will need to step up research and deployment of new offshore carbon storage wells if it is to achieve the capacity required to deliver its net zero emissions plans, a new report says.

Research highlights growing market in AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to bypass human bias to remove discrimination from hiring.

New data from Rwanda, and some of the first published on how COVID-19 has impacted school attendance in the Global South, suggest that a widely-predicted spike in drop-out rates has -not materialised-. We are still developing a comprehensive picture of the situation across Sub-Saharan Africa, but the impact on drop-outs appears far less extreme than initially feared Pauline Rose Ever since the pandemic forced schools around the world to close, analysts, academics and teachers have been warning that many students in poorer countries might not return.

Experts are calling on the government to continue focusing on -levelling-up- health, arguing that reducing the health gap is too important an agenda to abandon.

A new report highlights the advances and challenges in prevention, clinical care, and research in traumatic brain injury, a leading cause of injury-related death and disability worldwide.

Researchers say a -human bottleneck-, due to historical cuts in public health funding, delayed the UK-s scale-up of COVID-19 testing in the early stages of the country's pandemic response.

Analysis of energy RD&D investment in major economies also found that commitments at COP21 yielded some positives. Ultimately, however, trends over this century are not consistent with the -cleantech- funding levels needed to meet climate goals, say researchers.

Analysis of posts from thousands of social media users either side of a scandal - the dramatic fall of YouTube celebrity Logan Paul - shows how hard it is for us to -update our beliefs- about those we support, even when they behave in appalling ways.

A new economic impact report details the financial contributions of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC), which celebrates its 60th anniversary this autumn.

While funding is pumped into preventing low-probability scenarios such as asteroid collision, the far more likely threat of a large volcanic eruption is close to ignored - despite much that could be done to reduce the risks, say researchers.

Men with early, curable stages of prostate cancer are missing opportunities to have their cancer detected because national guidelines and media health campaigns focus on urinary symptoms despite a lack of scientific evidence, say experts at the University of Cambridge. When most people think of the symptoms of prostate cancer, they think of problems with peeing.

The latest edition of the leading Latin course has been designed to more accurately depict the roles of women, minorities and enslaved people in the Roman world.

A major new institute opens today, bringing together the largest concentration of scientists and clinicians in heart and lung medicine in Europe.

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

A new partnership involving Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) and the University's Faculty of Education, brings medical training using -mixed reality- technology one step closer.

KPMG and the University of Cambridge unveil new partnership to reimagine the world of work, starting with mental wellbeing New five-year partnership on the -Future of Work- will examine the big issues

Pandemic has delayed lifesaving treatment for thousands of people with severe aortic stenosis. Our approach does not put the onus on only management or doctors, but creates a joint solution that is easier to implement in practice Feryal Erhun Urgent action is needed to clear the backlog of people with a common heart condition who are waiting for lifesaving treatment, according to published in the journal BMJ Open .

A group of education specialists are urging researchers to challenge the -structures and regulations- which define academic scholarship, arguing that different approaches are needed in an age of climate change, COVID-19 and rising populism.

Watching too much TV is associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease regardless of an individual's genetic makeup, say a team of scientists at the University of Cambridge and the University of Hong Kong.

King Henry VIII had already made up his mind to found Trinity College Cambridge and Christ Church Oxford before Cambridge lobbied his queen, a re-examination of 16th-century sources suggests.

The University of Cambridge has once again been recognised as a Leader in Openness for its work to promote openness and transparency around research involving the use of animals.

Nine Cambridge academics have won Advanced Grants awarded by the European Research Council (ERC). This is the greatest number of grants won by a UK institution in the 2021 round of funding.

Adapting remote and hybrid work policies to employees' specific work-life situations can result in increased well-being and productivity, but many employees are stuck in an increasing number of low-quality meetings when working remotely, according to a new study.