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Reality design lab: Prototyping new legal worlds
The world has become a live design lab for what used to be unimaginable. We now share it with robots that consume other robots, shape-shifting machines, AI systems designed from […]
Scholar publishes new book on UI/UX design process
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has published a book which aims to mainstream the User Interface (UI)/User Experience (UX) design process by explaining the latest developments in a comprehensible way. Intelligent […]
How current phenomena may cast light on the early universe
Luca Abu El-Haj [2026] was not sure he wanted to study physics when he started his undergraduate degree, but halfway through he discovered cosmology and he hasn’t looked back since. […]
From health inequality to Polar tourism at the Lent Internal Symposium
Six Gates Cambridge Scholars in disciplines ranging from public health to criminology and zoology talked about their ‘Notes from the Field’ at the Lent Internal Symposium last night. The six […]
Exploring carbon storage in peatlands
Madison Fail [2026] has taken a circuitous route to her current work on understanding carbon storage in peatlands. A seasoned social justice campaigner, she has now found her passion in research […]
