Green energy and better crops: tinted solar panels could boost farm incomes
04 Aug 2020Researchers have demonstrated the use of tinted, semi-transparent solar panels to generate electricity and produce nutritionally-superior crops...
Four-stranded DNA structures found to play role in breast cancer
03 Aug 2020Four-stranded DNA structures – known as G-quadruplexes – have been shown to play a role in certain types of breast cancer for the first time...
‘Quantum negativity’ can power ultra-precise measurements
29 Jul 2020Scientists have found that a physical property called ‘quantum negativity’ can be used to take more precise measurements of everything from molecular...
‘Lost’ world’s rediscovery is step towards finding habitable planets
21 Jul 2020The rediscovery of a lost planet could pave the way for the detection of a world within the habitable ‘Goldilocks zone’ in a distant solar system.
Study shows how our brains remain active during familiar, repetitive tasks
14 Jul 2020New research, based on earlier results in mice, suggests that our brains are never at rest, even when we are not learning anything about the world...
Printed coatings enable more efficient solar cells
09 Jul 2020Researchers at Cambridge, Imperial and Singapore have developed a method to print ultrathin coatings on next-generation solar cells, allowing them to...
The Royal Society announces election of new Fellows 2020
29 Apr 2020Nine Cambridge scientists are among the new Fellows announced today by the Royal Society.
Shedding light on dark traps
16 Apr 2020Researchers pinpoint the origin of defects that sap the performance of next-generation solar technology.
‘Wonderchicken’ fossil from the age of dinosaurs reveals origin of modern birds
18 Mar 2020The oldest fossil of a modern bird yet found, dating from the age of dinosaurs, has been identified by an international team of palaeontologists.
Half billion-year-old 'social network' observed in early animals
05 Mar 2020Some of the first animals on Earth were connected by networks of thread-like filaments, the earliest evidence yet found of life being connected in...
Large exoplanet could have the right conditions for life
27 Feb 2020Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets...
Watching magnetic nano ‘tornadoes’ in 3D
24 Feb 2020Scientists have developed a three-dimensional imaging technique to observe complex behaviours in magnets, including fast-moving waves and ‘tornadoes...