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The University of Cambridge is a collegiate research university in England, among the world's oldest, spanning sciences, humanities, and medicine.
A 41-author team from 23 institutions defines wood security and lists 20 challenges, urging that it rank with food, energy and water security. The list comes from a scored expert workshop, so it ranks judgement and sets a research agenda.
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Researchers at Cambridge and CIMAT used 6,000-year-old algae records to project Arctic winter sea ice about 1 million km2 below earlier estimates. They say the weighting narrows the uncertainty range by as much as 85%.
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Cambridge archaeologists attribute a 15 mm hole in the Shanidar A Neanderthal's shoulder blade to a wooden spear about 75,000 years ago. Whether the thrust was a hunting accident or violence between people cannot be known, the authors write.
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Cambridge and UEA researchers found women with autoimmune disease 74% likelier than men to report a psychosomatic misdiagnosis. The figures rest on patients' own recall in a mostly female, mostly UK sample.
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Indian Institute of Science simulations let a magnetized white dwarf reach about 2.4 solar masses, well above the 1.4 Chandrasekhar limit. The model traces one route a star could take, and how many of the Type Ia supernovae used to measure cosmic distances start that way is still open.
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Researchers used identical twin girls' own cell mutations to show one sister's cancer crossed to the other before birth, in a single late transfer. The lineage method, reported in Nature Communications, also dated the tumor's origin to the end of the first trimester and traced how the sisters formed.
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IRB Barcelona, Cambridge and UT Southwestern scientists built OpenCGChromatin, software that simulates chromatin over ten times larger than comparable models. The code is open source, so other labs can now test their own DNA-packaging hypotheses with it.
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Cambridge and King's College London mathematicians say the Lean code for OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof states a weaker step than the written paper. Both proofs may hold up, but Lean verifies only the code it is given, so a person still has to check that the code matches the text.
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Cambridge-led researchers tracing collagen-eating enzymes in 700 bacterial genomes found they reached oxygen-using bacteria around the end of the Ediacaran. That timing matches the fall in soft-bodied fossils, so later gaps may record faster decay, a case built on matching dates.
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Researchers at IIT Gandhinagar, Cambridge and Birmingham report a copper MOF that holds 490 mg of lead or 351 mg of neodymium per gram of material. Whether that lets cleanup pay for itself through recovery depends on cost and scale-up work the team says still has to be done.
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Roselyn Campbell of Purdue found likely fatal fractures on 18 of 46 First Dynasty skulls from Abydos that Petrie had taken for natural damage. The result gives Petrie's 1920s suspicion of retainer sacrifice physical support, though only for the skulls he kept from hundreds of graves.
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Two decades after Janelia proposed the project, the adult fly connectome is finished. The 1,000-fold efficiency gain credited with making it possible is measured against the institute's own 2008 forecast.
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Cambridge and Berlin researchers mapped 97-million-year-old magnetofossils in 3D, finding structures suited to sensing Earth's field direction and strength. The maker is unidentified, so the navigation claim rests on inferring behavior from magnetic structure.
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Excavators near the Vatican found 21 Anglo-Saxon coins among 30, the first physical evidence, per New Scientist, that Rome's English quarter existed. The team argues the pennies were everyday money, a sign the English could use their own currency in part of the papal city.
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Cambridge and Sheffield researchers linked restoration at nearly 130,000 African sites to changes in tree loss up to 10 kilometers outside project boundaries. Accounting that stops at a project's edge can miss an effect almost as large as the one it measures, in either direction.
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Veiled chameleon embryos form the pre-gastrulation cavity once thought unique to mammals, a Nature Communications study reports. The team proposes the lizard as a model for the earliest human stages, a period scientists rarely get to observe directly.
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Cambridge-led researchers plan to fly the suitcase-sized CosmoCube around the Moon and collect about 1,000 hours of Earth-shielded radio data over two years. It will listen for hydrogen's 21-centimetre signal from the roughly 150 million years before the first stars, an era no one has directly observed.
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Cambridge researchers' open-source Tessera model mapped crops in Senegal's groundnut basin correctly 84% of the time on a fraction of the usual labeled data. For agencies that can afford field surveys only every few years, the more useful result is that its maps held up best when trained on one year and applied to another.
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Operation Blue Skies will spend 30 months testing whether Google's contrail predictions are good enough for NATS controllers to shift aircraft 2,000ft over the North Atlantic.
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Cambridge psychiatrist Peter Jones saw a patient's hallucinations resist antipsychotics and then fade after plasma exchange for autoimmune encephalitis. The case supports antibody tests in some psychosis, but the evidence for wider screening is still one case and a 12-patient series.
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