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Lost civilisation discovered in Georgia’s highlands challenges ancient history

The rugged mountains in the southern highlands of Georgia have long been seen as a marginal region, disconnected from the broader developments that took place throughout Ancient South Caucasian civilisation. However, through extensive research by the Samtskhe-Javakheti Project (begun in 2017), this perspective has been challenged. Archaeologists, using a combination…

The Times of India

Monkeys learn to swallow soil so they can keep eating junk food – research

Scientists believe the dirt also provides bacteria and minerals absent from junk food.

Evening Standard

Monkeys in Gibraltar find way to keep eating tourist junk food without the upset stomach

Researchers think the behaviour is likely to have been learned socially

The Independent UK

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Channel 4 forced to apologise for swearing during boat race live coverage

BBC Boat Race veteran Clare Balding and reality TV star Jamie Lang were both forced to issue on-air apologies

Evening Standard

Who is Chris Rokos? Billionaire makes record £190m Cambridge University donation

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The Independent UK

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered

University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago

The Guardian - UK

Pepys ‘curated’ letters to conceal being offered enslaved boy as bribe – research

Cambridge University historian uncovers letter to diarist who was a naval official in 1670s

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Which human remains are held in UK museums – and where?

Institutions including the Natural History Museum and Cambridge University hold more than 263,000 human remains, Guardian investigation finds

The Guardian - UK

Desmond McConnell obituary

Other lives: Mineralogist who analysed samples of moon sand from the Apollo 11 mission

The Guardian - UK

Cambridge University museum set to return Benin bronzes to Nigeria

A Cambridge University museum will shortly return around 100 Benin bronzes to Nigeria as part of a major restitution initiative, the UK's weekly newspaper the Observer has reported.

Radio France Internationale

Viking Age mass grave unearthed near Cambridge with remains of ‘extremely tall’ man who had brain surgery

The individual was somewhere between 17 and 24 years old, with evidence indicating he may have had a hormone-related growth condition

The Independent UK

Cambridge students on training dig help unearth possible execution pit

The burial pit contained the remains of 10 people based on the number of skulls, including at least one decapitation.

Evening Standard

Students unearth remains in possible execution pit on training dig

The discovery was made at Wandlebury Country Park near Cambridge

The Independent UK

Cambridge university accused of ‘obfuscation’ over arms investment

Academics say £4bn investment fund is ‘designed to prevent any troublesome democratic interference’

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Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into ‘great spaces’ found a new advocate in Trump?

Carl Schmitt wanted empires that dominated the small countries in their orbits. But the US president’s chaotic actions are not that strategic, says Brendan Simms, director of the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge University

The Guardian - UK

Trinity Hall mustn’t confuse opportunity with ability

Letters: Joseph Oakley says the Cambridge University college risks returning to an admissions culture that rewards advantage rather than potential, while Daisy Shaw urges state students not to give up the fight. Plus a letter from Prof Douglas Robinson

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How to watch Midnight Mass 2025 — live stream First Mass of the Nativity for free

The BBC bring live coverage of the First Mass of the Nativity. Here's how to watch Midnight Mass 2025 online and from anywhere.

What Hi-Fi?

From college-room creations to British hi-fi icons, Arcam’s John Dawson reflects on 50 proud years of electronics engineering

And his run is far from over

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Evening Standard

About half of UK novelists fear AI will take their work entirely – study

Some 59% of novelists said they know their work has been used to train AI large language models without permission or payment.

Space

Our universe's oldest galaxies were hot messes

A new study used the James Webb Space Telescope to study how our universe's first galaxies were.

PC Gamer

New research into human vision proves high-res PC monitors right up to 16K are worth it and comes with a handy calculator to help you choose your next screen

Time to save up for a 16K PC monitor?

The Independent UK

Nigel Farage appoints right-wing anti-abortion theologian as Reform senior adviser

Professor James Orr is understood to be close to JD Vance and influential in Donald Trump’s administration with his right-wing views on abortion and immigration

Evening Standard

Academic influential within Trump administration joins Reform UK as adviser

Cambridge University’s James Orr was described as ‘a brilliant academic, theologian, thinker’ by Reform’s head of policy Zia Yusuf.

The Guardian - UK

Dame Jane Goodall obituary

Pioneering scientist whose breakthrough studies of chimpanzees changed how the animals were perceived and led to greater protection

The Guardian - UK

Debut author Colwill Brown wins BBC short story award for ‘heartbreaking’ tale – read an extract here

Brown’s story of a teenage life ‘critically damaged in a moment’ was the ‘unanimous’ pick for the £15,000 prize

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