The Vice-Chancellor's Awards 2023 for Research Impact and Engagement
13 Dec 2023Meet the winner of the Vice-Chancellor's Awards 2023 for Research Impact and Engagement and learn more about their projects.
Early Career Researcher 2023 - Dr Barry Coughlan
13 Dec 2023The joint winner of the Early Career Researcher 2023 is Dr Barry Coughlan.
Collaboration Award 2023
13 Dec 2023The 2023 Collaboration Awards goes to UK Citizens' Jury on Human Embryo Editing, led by Professor Anna Middleton, Director Kavli Centre for Ethics...
From ground-breaking research in Nigeria to using novel tools to transform conservation
12 Dec 2023Researchers from across the University have been recognised for their outstanding research impact and engagement.
Successful honey-hunters know how to communicate with wild birds
08 Dec 2023Wild honeyguide birds prefer to cooperate with people who have learned local cultural traditions to find and access honey-filled bees’ nests, a new...
Researchers redesign future mRNA therapeutics to prevent potentially harmful immune responses
06 Dec 2023Researchers have discovered that misreading of therapeutic mRNAs by the cell’s decoding machinery can cause an unintended immune response in the body...
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...