Emissions-free flying takes off at Cambridge Climate Challenge
03 April 2025A biology PhD candidate and an early career aerospace engineer researcher won the 2025 Cambridge Zero Climate Challenge for turning waste into sustainable jet fuel
10 Cambridge AI spinouts
02 April 2025Meet 10 Cambridge spinouts, all hoping to harness the potential of AI for the good of the planet and its people.
Opinion: Universities play a vital role in the future of AI
02 April 2025Universities can bridge the gap between those who develop AI systems and those who will use and be affected by them. We must step up to deliver this role, say Neil Lawrence and Jess Montgomery.
Psychedelic medicine could revolutionise how we treat mental illness
02 April 2025Dr. Ayla Selamoglu is an expert on psychedelic medicine. Her work shows how nature’s most mysterious compounds provide new ways to combat mental illness.
Opinion: AI can democratise weather forecasting
01 April 2025AI will give us the next leap forward in forecasting the weather, says Richard Turner, and make it available to all countries, not just those with access to high-quality data and computing resources.
Play 'humanises' paediatric care and should be key feature of a child-friendly NHS – report
31 March 2025The Cambridge report argues that play should be a recognised component of children’s healthcare in the Government’s forthcoming 10-year plan for the NHS.
From family archive to stage: The remarkable journey of ‘Not for a cat’ play at the Cambridge Festival
31 March 2025A recently rediscovered play, Not for a Cat: A Play for the Nuclear Age, will be premiering at the Cambridge Festival. The play was originally written in the 1950s by Wallace R. Harper, a student at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in the 1920.
Weasel testicles, stargazing and royal remedies: medieval medicine examined in Curious Cures exhibition
27 March 2025Ancient manuscripts reveal complex theories behind the terrifying treatments of the medieval era
AI is as good as pathologists at diagnosing coeliac disease, study finds
27 March 2025A machine learning algorithm developed by Cambridge scientists was able to correctly identify in 97 cases out of 100 whether or not an individual had coeliac disease based on their biopsy, new research has shown.
Farewell, Gaia: spacecraft operations come to an end
27 March 2025The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down, after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets of our home galaxy.
