AI breakthrough helps astronomers spot cosmic events with just a handful of examples

Published on October 7, 2025

A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real changes in the night sky - such as an exploding star, a black hole tearing apart a passing star, or a fast-moving asteroid - and explain its reasoning, without the need for complex training.
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Research led by the University of Cambridge has found the first clear evidence that the ‘good’ gut bacteria Bifidobacterium breve in pregnant mothers regulates the placenta’s production of hormones critical for a healthy pregnancy.In a study in mice, the researchers compared the placentas of mice with no gut bacteria to those of mice with Bifidobacterium breve in their gut during pregnancy.Pregnan

Cambridge alumnus awarded 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

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Clarke, who is Professor Emeritus of the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley, completed both his undergraduate and PhD studies at Cambridge. He was born in Cambridge and attended the Perse School on an academic scholarship before coming to Christ’s College as an undergraduate to read Natural Sciences.Clarke moved to Darwin College for his PhD, which he completed in 1968 at