How will history tell our stories?
24 March 2025Historian Helen McCarthy helps us make sense of our recent past. She infuses her subjects – from working mothers to modern retirees – with urgency and personality.
Cambridge leads top three universities for number of new spinouts
23 March 2025Of the UK’s top three universities for spinouts – Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial - Cambridge saw the most growth in 2024, according to a new report on trends in UK academic spinouts.
Lord Patrick Vallance, Science Minister and Oxford-Cambridge Innovation Champion, visits Cambridge
21 March 2025Science Minister and Oxford-Cambridge Innovation Champion, Lord Patrick Vallance, visited Cambridge to see how the world’s most intensive science and technology cluster can drive economic growth.
Powerful new MRI scans enable life-changing surgery in first for adults with epilepsy
21 March 2025Scientists have developed a new technique that has enabled ultra-powerful MRI scanners to identify tiny differences in patients’ brains that cause treatment-resistant epilepsy. It has allowed doctors at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, to offer the patients surgery to cure their condition.
Fully AI driven weather prediction system could start revolution in forecasting
20 March 2025A new AI weather prediction system, developed by researchers from the University of Cambridge, can deliver accurate forecasts tens of times faster and using thousands of times less computing power than current AI and physics-based forecasting systems.
Cambridge's Institute for Manufacturing launches 2025 UK Innovation Report
20 March 2025As the UK Government continues to develop its national industrial strategy, the Cambridge Industrial Innovation Policy group at Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing has unveiled the UK Innovation Report 2025.
Stormzy among eight nominated for honorary degrees
19 March 2025Talented individuals from the world of science, music, drama, law, economics, sport and political activism are recognised in the list of distinguished people nominated for honorary degrees from the University of Cambridge this year.
Cambridge UK leaders explore Cambridge US innovation ecosystem
19 March 2025A delegation of university representatives and innovation leaders from Cambridge, UK, recently visited Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to examine one of the world’s most successful innovation hubs.
Dementia patients and their carers to be asked about direction of drug research
19 March 2025Cambridge researchers are seeking the views of people with lived experience of dementia – patients and their friends and families – on which existing drugs should be repurposed for clinical trials to see whether they can slow or halt the progress of dementia.
Conservation efforts are bringing species back from the brink
18 March 2025A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that while the natural world continues to face a biodiversity crisis, targeted conservation efforts are helping bring many species back from the brink of extinction.
