The futurist who'd like the future to slow down - just a little
10 Jun 2021The problem with being a futurist, says Richard Watson, is that change is happening a lot faster and a lot crazier these days. We talk to him about...
‘Vegan spider silk’ provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics
10 Jun 2021Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products.
Heal thyself
24 May 2021Three companies, Astex Pharmaceuticals, Eisai Ltd and Eli Lilly and Company, are joining forces with research scientists across Cambridge to explore...
Journeys of discovery: rapid genome sequencing
18 May 2021David Klenerman and Shankar Balasubramanian talk about their discovery of a revolutionary DNA sequencing technology – and the global impact that...
A strange kind of intimacy: executive education in a pandemic and beyond
18 May 2021You don't have to get a place at Cambridge to study here. The University also provides executive education and lifelong learning to lots of different...
Cambridge Advance Online courses open up University of Cambridge as part of major digital learning expansion
18 May 2021The University of Cambridge’s world-class teaching, thinking and research is available to professionals worldwide through a new programme of online...
University of Cambridge announces appointment of Dr Diarmuid O’Brien as new Chief Executive of Cambridge Enterprise
04 May 2021The University of Cambridge announces the appointment of Dr Diarmuid O’Brien as the new Chief Executive of Cambridge Enterprise, effective September...
First COVID-19 lockdown cost UK hospitality and high street £45 billion in turnover, researchers estimate
18 Feb 2021However, UK supermarkets and online retailers made an additional £4 billion each thanks to the coronavirus lockdown that began in March last year...
Low-carbon policies can be ‘balanced’ to benefit small firms and average households – study
18 Jan 2021A review of ten types of policy used to reduce carbon suggests that some costs fall on those less able to bear them – but it also shows these...
Cambridge launches Regulatory Genome Project
21 Dec 2020The project will use machine learning to sequence the world’s regulatory text and create an open-source repository of machine-readable regulatory...
Architecting the future
08 Dec 2020Arm is working with Cambridge researchers to make our phones and computers more secure, more efficient and ready for the digital revolution.
Beyond the pandemic: overhaul back-to-work policies to protect mental health
25 Nov 2020Dr Adam Coutts, an expert in labour market interventions, discusses three policy options for responding to the unemployment crisis caused by the...