From helping to inoculate the public against misinformation to tackling air pollution in rapidly urbanising African cities, researchers from across the University of Cambridge were honoured at the Cambridge Awards on 3 February.
Meet the winner of the Cambridge Awards 2024 for Research Impact and Engagement and learn more about their projects.
People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and Essex, new research has found.
Professor Sam Stranks is developing next-generation solar cell technology, which could drive down renewable energy prices even further.
A new Cambridge network is turning to basic science in a bid to advance our understanding and treatment of mental health disorders
Congratulations to the students who've achieved the grades they needed at A-level to secure a place on a degree course at Cambridge.
How photoacoustics could transform cancer detection and monitoring
Blue and great tits recall what they have eaten in the past, where they found the food and when they found it, a new study shows. In the first experiment of its kind to involve wild animals, blue and great tits demonstrated ‘episodic-like’ memory to cope with changes in food availability when foraging. The same study may suggest that humans leaving out seeds and nuts for garden birds could be contributing to the evolution of these memory traits.
Researchers have found a way to super-charge the ‘engine’ of sustainable fuel generation – by giving the materials a little twist.
Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins, and produced a “bizarre” evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage.
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