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The Hungarian election 2026: Cambridge researchers give their reaction
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Cambridge's University's new pop-up planetarium will take school children to the stars for free
Professor Mark Brown

What's killing our bees – and how they fight back
Cambridge Men’s President Noam Mouelle interviewed by the media after The Boat Race

Cambridge Men’s Blue Boat wins seventh Boat Race in eight years
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Cambridge to establish Rokos School of Government
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Samuel Pepys censored his links to slavery
A Black chess player about to win against a light-skinned cleric. Chess problem 88 in the Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas (Seville, 1283). Credit: Patrimonio Nacional. Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial

Medieval chess promoted racial harmony and respect
Child with open arms and an AI powered soft toy on her lap.

Report calls for AI toy safety standards to protect young children
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Cambridge to careers

Amina Chowdhury

Cambridge to Careers: How loving what I studied led me into public policy
Liz Samuel

Cambridge to Careers: How my degree prepared me to be a confident doctor
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Cambridge to Careers: How I gained skills that took me into radio
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Cambridge to Careers: skills and support that take you further

Cambridge in the media

Guardian

Medieval chess a 'vision of equality'
The outlet features a Cambridge historian's work on the 'game of kings'.
BBC News

AI toys 'misread emotions'
BBC national covers a Cambridge report calling for tighter regulation of AI-powered toys.
CNN

Students find Viking-era burial
Cambridge archaeology students make a grisly discovery.
Financial Times

War in Iran risks cyber insurgency
Cambridge cybercrime expert Prof Alice Hutchings writes on the cyber warfare aspect of the conflict.

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Cambridge to Careers: How I got my dream job as a clinical psychologist

From Bradford to Cambridge and back again, Arcellia Sasu-Twum shows how taking a chance and backing herself academically helped her to…

The language of justice

The man behind the mangroves

The medical student tackling the taboo around periods

Around the University

How Churchill women helped kick off a sporting revolution
Churchill College

First college women's football team
Caian’s homage to Nick Drake
Gonville & Caius College

Homage to Nick Drake
Blue hydrogen: a solution or false hope for UK net zero?
Trinity Hall

Blue hydrogen and UK net zero
The patriarch of the Brontë family was a St John’s undergraduate
St John's College

Brontë family patriarch at Cambridge

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