Cambridge academic named backup astronaut on Artemis II mission
06 Dec 2023Dr Jenni Gibbons, Assistant Professor in Cambridge's Engineering department, is part of the Artemis II mission that will send humans around the moon...
Diamonds and rust help unveil ‘impossible’ quasi-particles
05 Dec 2023Researchers have discovered magnetic monopoles – isolated magnetic charges – in a material closely related to rust, a result that could be used to...
‘Bone biographies’ reveal life and times of medieval England’s common people
01 Dec 2023Researchers have given medieval Cambridge residents the ‘Richard III treatment’ to reveal the hard-knock lives of those who lived in the city during...
Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language
30 Nov 2023Researchers find that babies don’t begin to process phonetic information reliably until seven months old which they say is too late to form the...
How human Aboriginal remains were traded for scientific accolades
29 Nov 2023Victorian collector traded human Aboriginal remains for scientific accolades, study reveals
Four Cambridge researchers awarded consolidator grants from the European Research Council
22 Nov 2023The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded grants worth a total of €627 million to 308 researchers across Europe, of whom four are at the...
Cambridge University's Experience Postgrad Life Sciences programme is transforming lives
20 Nov 2023Widening participation programme offers substantive lab-based research experience and the chance for student scientists to further develop their...
Innovative aquaculture system turns waste wood into nutritious seafood
20 Nov 2023Researchers hoping to rebrand a marine pest as a nutritious food have developed the world’s first system of farming shipworms, which they have...
Butterflies, Bees and Broader Horizons
17 Nov 2023Cambridge Zero programme prepares young climate leaders for the future
Cambridge launches 'Problem-Solving Schools' initiative as AI means key skill is even more crucial
16 Nov 2023Mathematicians at the University of Cambridge are supporting UK schools to help prioritise problem solving in maths.
‘Bouncing’ comets could deliver building blocks for life to exoplanets
15 Nov 2023How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that they could have been delivered by comets. Now...
The cosmologist solving questions at the boundary of our understanding
13 Nov 2023Hiranya Peiris is Cambridge’s new Professor of Astrophysics (1909). She discusses being inspired by Stephen Hawking, the unknown space before you...