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Scholar scoops neuroscience award
Gates Cambridge Scholar Andrea Luppi has been named one of 25 rising stars in Neuroscience by The Transmitter, a leading neuroscience magazine. The Transmitter’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience recognises early-career […]
The meaning of intelligence
“Cephalopods are beautifully strange animals that look like nothing else on Earth, but they are very smart. Hearing that can be eye-opening for some. I hope to leverage that unexpectedness […]
An Alaskan odyssey
Two authors of the Arctic were in conversation at Bill Gates Sr. House this week to celebrate the publication of Ben Weissenbach’s new book North to the Future. Ben was […]
Re-imagining plural, inclusive design futures in AI
Two Gates Cambridge Scholars are co-authors of a new paper on a human-AI art experiment involving the works of the Bangladeshi artist S M Sultan. Abdullah Hasan Safir [2024] from […]
Exploring the infinitely expanding jigsaw puzzle of nature
Ming Yang’s immense curiosity about fundamental science started in childhood. He says: “Consciously or not, it always fascinated me how rich structures lie beneath very simple first principles.” His PhD […]
