Top Hackernews posts from www.cam.ac.uk

Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big climate challenges (www.cam.ac.uk)

324 points by timthorn 4 months ago | 197 comments
How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part? (www.cam.ac.uk)

275 points by lostin01010101 4 months ago | 146 comments
AI system self-organises to develop features of brains of complex organisms (www.cam.ac.uk)

271 points by timthorn 10 months ago | 140 comments
One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown (www.cam.ac.uk)

266 points by vanilla-almond over 2 years ago | 122 comments
Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than we thought (www.cam.ac.uk)

214 points by rgrieselhuber almost 3 years ago | 241 comments
The Life of Pi: Ten Years of Raspberry Pi (www.cam.ac.uk)

201 points by giuliomagnifico over 2 years ago | 139 comments
Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time (2013) (www.cam.ac.uk)

189 points by freediver over 3 years ago | 45 comments
Sleight-of-hand magic trick only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs (www.cam.ac.uk)

183 points by supermatou over 1 year ago | 45 comments
Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all (www.cam.ac.uk)

169 points by kvee 12 months ago | 157 comments
Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store ten times more data (www.cam.ac.uk)

158 points by rustoo over 3 years ago | 144 comments
‘Vegan spider silk’ provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics (www.cam.ac.uk)

153 points by montalbano about 3 years ago | 132 comments
Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’ (www.cam.ac.uk)

149 points by laurex almost 2 years ago | 204 comments
Colour-changing magnifying glass gives clear view of infrared light (www.cam.ac.uk)

145 points by rustoo almost 3 years ago | 48 comments
Researchers have discovered magnetic monopole quasi-particles (www.cam.ac.uk)

139 points by pdpi 10 months ago | 69 comments
Missing Darwin Notebooks Returned to Cambridge University Library (www.cam.ac.uk)

124 points by vo2maxer over 2 years ago | 39 comments
Slamming political rivals may be the most effective way to go viral (www.cam.ac.uk)

111 points by hhs about 3 years ago | 114 comments
Mystery of high-performing solar cell materials revealed (www.cam.ac.uk)

98 points by rustoo almost 3 years ago | 19 comments
Millions of carbon credits are generated by overestimating forest preservation (www.cam.ac.uk)

96 points by hhs about 1 year ago | 7 comments
Imperceptible sensors can be printed directly on human skin (www.cam.ac.uk)

94 points by geox 4 months ago | 36 comments
Algae-Powered Computing (www.cam.ac.uk)

93 points by tosh over 2 years ago | 30 comments
Breakthrough in understanding how cancer spreads could lead to better treatments (www.cam.ac.uk)

82 points by elorant almost 2 years ago | 16 comments
2023 was the hottest summer in two thousand years (www.cam.ac.uk)

82 points by gmays 4 months ago | 72 comments
We do not prefer chords to be perfectly in mathematical ratios: study (www.cam.ac.uk)

81 points by glitcher 6 months ago | 84 comments
Brain charts: mapping the rapid growth and slow decline of the brain over life (www.cam.ac.uk)

80 points by giuliomagnifico over 2 years ago | 27 comments
A floating solar-powered device produces clean water and clean fuel (www.cam.ac.uk)

71 points by geox 10 months ago | 14 comments
Tuning into brainwave rhythms speeds up learning in adults (www.cam.ac.uk)

70 points by gmays over 1 year ago | 19 comments
A jelly-like material that acts like hard, shatterproof glass when compressed (www.cam.ac.uk)

63 points by rustoo almost 3 years ago | 40 comments
46” woven display with integrated smart sensors and energy harvesting (www.cam.ac.uk)

57 points by giuliomagnifico over 2 years ago | 31 comments
Services across England now lag far behind East Germany (www.cam.ac.uk)

54 points by hhs 10 months ago | 65 comments