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How the brain’s motor system works in old age
How does the brain’s motor system compensate for the decline in our ability to sense the world around us as we get older? According to new research led by a […]
Whatsapp for health
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has created an app which can be used by healthworkers in remote areas of the Peruvian Amazon to gather vital information and increase reporting of health […]
Changing the world through education
Ria Collingwood-Boafo has been an activist from an early age, but she knew that to make a lasting impact she needed to be able to have a seat at the […]
Climate change: past, present and future
Two Gates Cambridge scholars will be speaking at a debate on climate change at this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas. Rachel Reckin [2014] and Victoria Herrmann [2014] are speaking at […]
From opera to social politics
Parvathi Subbiah’s academic career has taken some dramatic changes along the way, from engineering to music – she sang opera with the world famous Simon Bolivar Orchestra – to Latin […]
Reducing species loss through collaboration
Animal behaviour experts and wildlife conservationists have come together to identify the 50 key questions on which they can collaborate to reduce species loss. Experts from the two disciplines came […]
Keeping an eye on the road
A new book which explores the prospect of people being able to control the electronic displays and interfaces in a car through eye gaze technology has just been published. The […]
Out of Africa and into Eurasia
A new study in Nature analyses genomic diversity in 125 human populations at an unprecedented level of detail, tackling questions related to our species’ demographic history and genetic adaptations, and […]
In search of a curative therapy for a viral epidemic
Gates Cambridge scholar Victor Roy is calling for a bold response to Hepatitis C while investigating the financial dynamics of pharmaceutical innovation that can lead to restrictions in treatment access. […]
The role of poetry in war
What is the role of poetry in war? How can it help people to cope with violence, fear and loss? Award-winning Ukrainian poet Iryna Shuvalova will investigate the role of […]
