10 Cambridge spinouts changing the story of cancer
17 Oct 202410 Cambridge spinouts on putting their research into practice to improve outcomes for cancer patients - and why Cambridge is a great place to do this.
Buying time: can science save the Great Barrier Reef?
16 Oct 2024If we don’t stop global temperatures – both on land and at sea – from rising, the Great Barrier Reef could become a coral graveyard. A team of scientists has decided to do something about it.
How did the building blocks of life arrive on Earth?
11 Oct 2024Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth. The results suggest that without ‘unmelted’ asteroids, there may not have been enough of these compounds on Earth for life to emerge.
‘Inside-out’ galaxy growth observed in the early universe
11 Oct 2024Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the ‘inside-out’ growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700 million years after the Big Bang.
Trash into treasure: making clean fuel from waste and sunlight
09 Oct 2024Professor Erwin Reisner and his team are developing prototype devices that convert waste, water and air into practical fuels and chemicals.
University of Cambridge alumni awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
09 Oct 2024Two University alumni, Sir Demis Hassabis and Dr John Jumper, have been jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting the complex structures of proteins.
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.
