Record-breaking Cambridge Festival 2025 ends on a high, uniting 45,000 visitors in celebration of ideas, discovery and dialogue
10 Apr 2025The fifth Cambridge Festival has drawn to a triumphant close, having welcomed a record-breaking 45,000 visitors across 385 events during 17 inspiring...
Hundreds of A-level students see grades rise and secure places at top universities following Cambridge's STEM SMART initiative
07 Apr 2025UCAS evaluation shows the most engaged sixth formers saw their results jump by a grade on average, were up to four times as successful in achieving...
Psychedelic medicine could revolutionise how we treat mental illness
02 Apr 2025Dr. Ayla Selamoglu is an expert on psychedelic medicine. Her work shows how nature’s most mysterious compounds provide new ways to combat mental...
Farewell, Gaia: spacecraft operations come to an end
27 Mar 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...
Webb Telescope sees galaxy in mysteriously clearing fog of early Universe
26 Mar 2025Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early Universe. The surprise finding is challenging researchers to...
Nobel laureate and Cambridge University alumnus Sir Demis Hassabis heralds a new era of AI drug discovery at 'digital speed'
24 Mar 2025Google DeepMind co-founder tells Cambridge audience 'digital biology’ could reduce the amount of time it takes to identify new drugs from years to...
Cambridge's Institute for Manufacturing launches 2025 UK Innovation Report
20 Mar 2025As the UK Government continues to develop its national industrial strategy, the Cambridge Industrial Innovation Policy group at Cambridge’s Institute...
Cambridge UK leaders explore Cambridge US innovation ecosystem
19 Mar 2025A delegation of university representatives and innovation leaders from Cambridge, UK, recently visited Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to...
Genetic study reveals hidden chapter in human evolution
18 Mar 2025Modern humans descended from not one, but at least 2 ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread...
Under the bonnet at Dawn, the UK's fastest AI supercomputer
17 Mar 2025How AI supercomputer, Dawn, is being used to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing humanity.
Spinning, twisted light could power next-generation electronics
13 Mar 2025Researchers have advanced a decades-old challenge in the field of organic semiconductors, opening new possibilities for the future of electronics.
Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Sam Nallaperuma-Herzberg
11 Mar 2025Dr Sam Nallaperuma-Herzberg is a Senior Research Associate at Cambridge University’s Department of Computer Science and Technology, and a Fellow in...