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...
Massive black hole in the early universe spotted taking a ‘nap’ after overeating
18 Dec 2024Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is ‘napping’ after stuffing itself with too much food.
The lab making food healthier and medicine cheaper
16 Dec 2024Dr Nicola Patron is cultivating a new kind of biotechnology, where we can read nature’s blueprints and direct its energy to more potent ends.
Researchers deal a blow to theory that Venus once had liquid water on its surface
02 Dec 2024A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbour was once...
New datasets will train AI models to think like scientists
02 Dec 2024What can exploding stars teach us about how blood flows through an artery? Or swimming bacteria about how the ocean’s layers mix? A collaboration of...
Award-winning broadcaster Hannah Fry joins Cambridge as Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics
22 Nov 2024Professor Hannah Fry, mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning science presenter and host of popular podcasts and television shows, will...
A peek inside the box that could help solve a quantum mystery
19 Nov 2024An elusive particle that first formed in the hot, dense early universe has puzzled physicists for decades. Following its discovery in 2003...
Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence
13 Nov 2024A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the...