Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Matt Bothwell
12 Feb 2025Dr Matthew Bothwell is an astrophysicist, science communicator and author, and the current Public Astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy...
Senior Government Minister, Pat McFadden, visits Cambridge to explore how AI can transform public services
04 Feb 2025The University welcomed the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP, to tour the DAWN supercomputer and discuss the ways in...
Collaboration Award 2024
03 Feb 2025The 2024 Collaboration Award winner is Representing psychosis in video games: Communicating clinical science and tackling stigma, a project led by...
The Cambridge Awards 2024 for Research Impact and Engagement
03 Feb 2025Meet the winner of the Cambridge Awards 2024 for Research Impact and Engagement and learn more about their projects.
Tiny copper ‘flowers’ bloom on artificial leaves for clean fuel production
03 Feb 2025Tiny copper ‘nano-flowers’ have been attached to an artificial leaf to produce clean fuels and chemicals that are the backbone of modern energy and...
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: the mountains beneath our feet
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...