‘Missing’ sea sponges discovered
05 Jun 2024The discovery, published in Nature, opens a new window on early animal evolution.
Changemakers in cancer: Swetha Kannan
05 Jun 2024Swetha was 12 years old when she decided she would help to unravel the mysteries of cancer. Twelve years later, she's studying for a PhD on cancer...
Rainforest wildlife under threat as below-canopy temperatures rise
03 Jun 2024Assumptions that tropical forest canopies protect from the effects of climate change are unfounded, say researchers.
Cuckoos evolve to look like their hosts - and form new species in the process
30 May 2024Two decades of cuckoo research have helped scientists to explain how battles between species can cause new species to arise
Earliest, most distant galaxy discovered with James Webb Space Telescope
30 May 2024The two earliest and most distant galaxies yet confirmed, dating back to only 300 million years after the Big Bang, have been discovered using NASA’s...
Earth’s earliest sea creatures drove evolution by stirring the water
17 May 20243D reconstructions suggest that simple marine animals living over 560 million years ago drove the emergence of more complex life by mixing the...
Webb detects most distant black hole merger to date
16 May 2024An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has used the James Webb Space Telescope to find evidence for an ongoing...
Ten Cambridge scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society 2024
16 May 2024Ten outstanding Cambridge researchers have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences and the oldest science...
New vaccine effective against coronaviruses that haven’t even emerged yet
06 May 2024Researchers have developed a new vaccine technology that has been shown in mice to provide protection against a broad range of coronaviruses with...
Revealed: face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave where species buried their dead
02 May 2024A new documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of...
A simple ‘twist’ improves the engine of clean fuel generation
24 Apr 2024Researchers have found a way to super-charge the ‘engine’ of sustainable fuel generation – by giving the materials a little twist.
Everest mountaineer’s letters digitised for the first time
22 Apr 2024Letters written by the famous mountaineer George Mallory have been made available to a global audience for the first time, in the centenary year of...