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Mobilizing the masses, one person at a time

May 19, 2021

“The goal of organizing is to transform people’s engagement with politics, yet people are simply not doing much of this kind of organizing work,” says Nahmias. As a comparative political...

A new rapid test detects a coronavirus infection in 10 minutes

May 19, 2021

Reliable rapid tests are needed, for example, at airports and ports for testing travellers quickly and effortlessly before their journey. In practice, the TR-FRET solution of the new SARS-CoV-2 rapid...

To map the universe, astrophysicists launch largest sky survey yet

May 19, 2021

In 1983, astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) released a cosmic map using 2,400 galaxies. Now, CfA scientists are aiming to map 30 million. In...

Computer science expert reviews a pandemic-stressed internet

May 19, 2021

What we realized in going through the paper is that that question doesn’t really make sense because the internet itself is not a thing. Most internet providers built their service...

“Stressed out” corals thriving thanks to mangroves

May 19, 2021

This observation led me to investigate the relationship between the mangroves and corals,” explains Stewart. “Our study revealed a lower number of coral species on the shallow reef than in...

Journeys of discovery: Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman

May 18, 2021

Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian and Professor Sir David Klenerman Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian and Professor Sir David KlenermanHas there been a defining moment for you in seeing the benefits of...

Sanders flexes on Biden, seeking to shape Democratic agenda

May 18, 2021

Manchin has worked to moderate Democratic proposals, and he has enormous power in a Senate equally divided between the two parties. Sanders is the voice of progressives who want to...

Cambridge researchers awarded the Millennium Technology Prize

May 18, 2021

University of Cambridge chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman have been jointly awarded the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious science and technology prizes, by Technology...

A strange kind of intimacy

May 18, 2021

Gazzard argues that, if anything, online delivery breaks down barriers: “Prior to COVID, the majority of our students wanted to come to Madingley Hall. But what we’ve seen is the...

Crowdsourcing data on road quality and excess fuel consumption

May 18, 2021

Using the accelerometers found in smartphones, Carbin converts vehicle acceleration signals into standard measurements of road roughness used by most DOTs. An algorithm built into the software can then estimate...