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The world's first webcam was set up by caffeine-starved computer scientists to watch a coffee pot!

We owe web cameras to a group of caffeine-starved computer scientists who just wanted to know if there was coffee in the pot without leaving their desks

Digital Camera World

Cambridge University students jump from bridge into river after Trinity May Ball

It is an informal tradition for students to do so as part of their post-ball antics, though it is said to be discouraged.

The Independent UK

Weight loss drugs could widen health inequalities, experts warn

Researchers argue the long-term benefits of weight loss jabs depend on nutrition advice and support

The Independent UK

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Cambridge University student beats fidget spinner record by almost five minutes

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The Independent UK

New fidget spinner world record set by Cambridge University engineering student

James Goh made his own fidget spinner to achieve the Guinness World Records title

The Independent UK

Cambridge University’s proposed Saudi deal endangers academic freedom

Letters: Academic freedom would be compromised by a planned deal between Cambridge University and Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry, warns Jemimah Steinfeld

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting: How a man whose grandfather was an armed robber now finds himself on the cusp of No 10

PROFILE: As a young child, he regularly visited his grandfather in prison. His grandmother shared a cell with Christine Keeler. Raised in a council flat in the East End, Wes Streeting – the now former health secretary – finds himself as the frontrunner in the race to succeed Starmer in…

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Cambridge University seeks deal with Saudi defence ministry despite rights concerns

Senior academics describe the Judge business school’s proposal to provide services and training as ‘horrifying’

The Guardian - UK

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 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

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

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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

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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.

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The Independent UK

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

Evening Standard

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.

The Independent UK

Students unearth remains in possible execution pit on training dig

The discovery was made at Wandlebury Country Park near Cambridge

The Guardian - UK

Cambridge university accused of ‘obfuscation’ over arms investment

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

The Guardian - UK

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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