The cost of solar power: how low can we go?
08 Oct 2024Professor Sam Stranks is developing next-generation solar cell technology, which could drive down renewable energy prices even further.
Highly-sensitive beaks could help albatrosses and penguins find their food
18 Sep 2024Researchers have discovered that seabirds, including penguins and albatrosses, have highly-sensitive regions in their beaks that could be used to help them find food. This is the first time this ability has been identified in seabirds.
Cancer researchers and astronomers join forces in fight against disease
13 Sep 2024A unique collaboration of astronomers and cancer researchers at Cambridge has been awarded more than £5m to establish the Spatial Profiling and Annotation Centre of Excellence (SPACE) to open up access to their groundbreaking cancer mapping technology and establish collaborations with other scientists to enable them to investigate tumours in 3D.
Team’s hip replacement surgery invention is set to be world first
13 Sep 2024Technology that could transform the future of hip replacement surgery is being pioneered by a team of experts in Cambridge.
Astronomers detect black hole ‘starving’ its host galaxy to death
12 Sep 2024Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host galaxies of the fuel they need to form new stars.
Early career researchers win major European funding
05 Sep 2024Nine Cambridge researchers are among the latest recipients of highly competitive and prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants.
Historic fires trapped in Antarctic ice yield key information for climate models
09 Aug 2024Pollutants preserved in Antarctic ice document historic fires in the Southern Hemisphere, offering a glimpse at how humans have impacted the landscape and providing data that could help scientists understand future climate change.
A new way of thinking about the economy could help protect the Amazon, and help its people thrive
06 Aug 2024To protect the Amazon and support the wellbeing of its people, its economy needs to shift from environmentally harmful production to a model built around the diversity of indigenous and rural communities, and standing forests.
Astronomers uncover risks to planets that could host life
05 Aug 2024Astronomers have discovered that red dwarf stars can produce stellar flares that carry far-ultraviolet (far-UV) radiation levels much higher than previously believed.
Five hubs launched to ensure UK benefits from quantum future
26 Jul 2024A major new research hub led by the University of Cambridge and UCL aims to harness quantum technology to improve early diagnosis and treatment of disease.
