Botanic Gardens must team up to save wild plants from extinction
27 Jan 2025The world’s botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-...
The codemakers
24 Jan 2025The 2025 Darwin Lecture series looks at codes, be they computational, mathematical, biological, linguistic or even musical.
Scientists reveal structure of 74 exocomet belts orbiting nearby stars
17 Jan 2025An international team of astrophysicists has imaged a large number of exocomet belts around nearby stars, and the tiny pebbles within them.
Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia
15 Jan 2025The European Space Agency’s Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion...
Into the underworld
14 Jan 2025Sanne Cottaar is Professor of Global Seismology in Earth Sciences. She wants to understand Earth’s inner structure: how it shaped the surface and...
Minister for AI and Digital Government visits Cambridge to tour the DAWN supercomputer
13 Jan 2025The Minister for AI and Digital Government, Feryal Clark MP, visited the University of Cambridge on the day the Government announced their new AI...
Feeding your good gut bacteria through fibre in diet may boost body against infections
10 Jan 2025A new study has found that the composition of your gut microbiome helps predict how likely you are to succumb to potentially life-threatening...
Origins of black holes revealed in their spin, study finds
07 Jan 2025Gravitational waves data held clues for high-mass black holes’ violent beginnings.
Boost your life in 2025: Top tips for a healthier body and mind from Cambridge experts
02 Jan 2025Five Cambridge experts share their top tips on ways to boost your body and mind, backed up by their own research
System to auto-detect new variants will inform better response to future infectious disease outbreaks
01 Jan 2025Researchers have come up with a new way to identify more infectious variants of viruses or bacteria that start spreading in humans - including those...
What was the Star of Bethlehem?
23 Dec 2024It’s a key feature of a school nativity play, but what’s the science behind the Star of Bethlehem?
Early warning tool will help control huge locust swarms
19 Dec 2024A new tool that predicts the behaviour of desert locust populations will help national agencies to manage huge swarms before they devastate food...