Steven Barrett appointed Regius Professor of Engineering
17 April 2024An expert on the environmental impacts of aviation, Barrett joins the University of Cambridge from MIT.
An expert on the environmental impacts of aviation, Barrett joins the University of Cambridge from MIT.
This year’s Gates Cambridge cohort comprises 75 new scholars, studying areas from the impact of climate change on tropical biodiversity to how the circulation of conflict photographs shapes perception.
Dr Jenni Gibbons, Assistant Professor in Cambridge's Engineering department, is part of the Artemis II mission that will send humans around the moon and further into space than they have ever been.
Four researchers are among the UK’s “most promising research leaders” who will benefit from £101 million from UKRI to tackle major global issues and commercialise their innovations.
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded grants worth a total of €627 million to 308 researchers across Europe, of whom four are at the University of Cambridge.
Research has found that bumblebees make foraging choices to collect the most sugar from flowers in the shortest time – even if that means using more energy in the process – to provide an immediate energy boost for the colony.
A new study led by Cambridge University confirms that planting hedges between roadsides and school playgrounds can dramatically reduce children’s exposure to traffic-related particle pollution.
Seven outstanding Cambridge researchers have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences and the oldest science academy in continuous existence.
Cambridge researchers have observed a highly unusual behaviour in the endangered freshwater mussel, Unio crassus.
Sixth form students sample life in a Cambridge research lab.