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Robots and carbon targets may signal the end of globalisation

A new book suggests there is early evidence of a coming U-turn in the globalisation of manufacturing – and that the story we are told about the direction of the global economy is wrong.

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Opinion: Dairy got the all-clear this week - but was it justified?

When it comes to health claims around the food we eat, it’s worth taking a closer look at the science behind the headlines, say Eirini Trichia and Professor Nita Forouhi from the MRC Epidemiology Unit, writing for The Conversation.

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Bioengineering, embryos and eggshells

Homerton Fellow Dr Michelle Oyen explains why she has dedicated her working life to investigating why pregnancies go wrong.

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Centre for the Future of Intelligence joins international coalition for safe and beneficial AI

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), a Cambridge-based research Centre exploring the nature and impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI), is joining the Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society (Partnership on AI), it was announced this evening.

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Opinion: How an open approach to patents could help build a sustainable future

Are strict IP policies harming the development of sustainable technologies? In this article for The Conversation , Frank Tietze from the Institute for Manufacturing investigates how the open source approach taken by companies such as Tesla may help the economy and the planet.

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Cambridge alumni's tech firm startup Improbable raises $500m

Improbable, founded by Cambridge alumni Herman Narula (Girton 2007) and Rob Whitehead (Robinson 2009), became the UK's latest $1billion tech startup this week.

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Can robots feel pain?

Dr Beth Singler will be speaking about her work on the social and ethical issues raised by robots as part of this year's Cambridge Series at the Hay Festival.

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Opinion: How epigenetics may help us slow down the ageing clock

Why do we age when we get older? Epigenetics may hold the answer – but could it one day help us turn back the clock? Professor Wolf Reik from the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and Dr Oliver Stegle from the European Bioinformatics Institute look at the ‘epigenetic...

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Scientists publish first comprehensive map of proteins within cells

The first analysis of how proteins are arranged in a cell has been published today in Science , revealing that a large portion of human proteins can be found in more than one location in a given cell.

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Opinion: Macron’s European trap

Despite its novelty, Emmanuel Macron's election victory in France points to one important continuity, argues Dr Chris Bickerton.

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