Cambridge scientists have solved the mystery of why both stimulating and blocking a particular ‘switch’ in the brain can help ...

A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that our evidence for what constitutes consciousness is far too limited to tell if or when artificial intelligence has made the leap – and a valid test for ...

The University of Cambridge’s strength in bringing together research, business, and investment to inspire innovation and ...

Quotations from Alan Turing’s short story known as ‘Pryce’s Buoy’ The 5th and 6th pages of Alan Turing's unfinished and unpublished short story known as ...

Crowdsourcing experiments that allow us to analyse how people interact with computers on a large scale are instrumental for identifying solution principles for the design of next-generation user ...

New study proposes a framework for “Child Safe AI” following recent incidents which revealed that many children see chatbots as quasi-human and trustworthy. When not designed with children’s needs in ...

Children’s play is under threat from increased urbanisation, perceptions of risk and educational pressures. The first research centre of its kind aims to understand the role played by play in how a ...

When historian Frederick Jackson Turner presented his famous thesis on the US frontier in 1893, he described the “coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and acquisitiveness” it had forged in ...

University spinout, CamGraPhIC, has received the EC greenlight for €211 million funding (about £183 million) from Italy to support the development of photonic optical transceivers based on graphene.

His Majesty The King was in Cambridge today (20 July) to officially open Cambridge’s New Whittle Laboratory, a £58 million facility designed to be the world’s leading research centre for jet engines ...

Spending can increase our happiness when it is spent on goods and services that fit our personalities and so meet our psychological needs. Joe Gladstone People who spent more money on purchases which ...

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 ...