Ambitious goals for Dawn – the UK's fastest AI supercomputer
23 Feb 2024Dawn is now being deployed for use by scientists within Cambridge and across the UK to support ambitious goals in clean energy, personalised medicine and climate.
Shimmering seaweeds and algae antennae: sustainable energy solutions under the sea
22 Feb 2024How could tiny antennae attached to tiny algae speed up the transition away from fossil fuels? This is one of the questions being studied by Cambridge researchers as they search for new ways to decarbonise our energy supply, and improve the sustainability of harmful materials such as paints and dyes.
New Cambridge-developed resources help students learn how maths can help tackle infectious diseases
19 Feb 2024Cambridge mathematicians have developed a set of resources for students and teachers that will help them understand how maths can help tackle infectious diseases.
£11m semiconductor research centre could be key player in UK’s net zero mission
13 Feb 2024The University of Cambridge is a partner in the new £11m Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) REWIRE, set to deliver pioneering semiconductor technologies and new electronic devices.
Celebrating Women in STEM
11 Feb 2024To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science , two of our academics speak about their research careers and how they ended up using their STEM interests to tackle climate change.
Ice cores provide first documentation of rapid Antarctic ice loss in the past
08 Feb 2024Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey have uncovered the first direct evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrunk suddenly and dramatically at the end of the Last Ice Age, around 8,000 years ago.
The big question - Cambridge University team joins ALPHA hunt for dark matter
07 Feb 2024A team of Cambridge scientists are working to help identify the mysterious and invisible material believed to make up 85 per cent of all the matter in the Universe.
Ancient seafloor vents spewed tiny, life-giving minerals into Earth’s early oceans
02 Feb 2024Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Western Australia have uncovered the importance of hydrothermal vents, similar to underwater geysers, in supplying minerals that may have been a key ingredient in the emergence of early life.
Swarming cicadas, stock traders, and the wisdom of the crowd
01 Feb 2024The springtime emergence of vast swarms of cicadas can be explained by a mathematical model of collective decision-making with similarities to models describing stock market crashes.
Galaxy mergers solve early Universe mystery
18 Jan 2024A team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to reveal, for the first time, what lies in the local environment of galaxies in the very early Universe.
