Why a mysterious ocean pattern could rapidly change our climate
04 Jul 2024Dr Aidan Starr is a paleoceanographer. In journeying back 2 million years, he hopes to fill in the missing chapters of our oceans and predict where...
Pioneering Code of Practice released for use of stem cell-based embryo models in research
04 Jul 2024The University of Cambridge, in partnership with the Progress Educational Trust, has led work to create the first ever UK guidelines for the...
Blue and great tits deploy surprisingly powerful memories to find food, a new study shows
03 Jul 2024Blue and great tits recall what they have eaten in the past, where they found the food and when they found it, a new study shows. In the first...
Australia’s giant lizards help save sheep from being eaten alive
25 Jun 2024Heath goannas - a species of giant, scavenging lizard - act as natural clean-up crews by clearing maggot-ridden animal carcasses from the landscape.
Discovery of ‘new rules of the immune system’ could improve treatment of inflammatory diseases, say scientists.
18 Jun 2024Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that a type of white blood cell - called a regulatory T cell - exists as a single large...
Why squids and flies are smarter than you think
13 Jun 2024Dr Elizabeth Barsotti is on a mission to map brains from across the animal kingdom. Her work is straight out of science fiction.
What’s going on in our brains when we plan?
11 Jun 2024Study uncovers how the brain simulates possible future actions by drawing from our stored memories.
Cambridge engineers bring historic Venn bowling machine back to life
09 Jun 2024The 2-metre-high contraption bowled out players from the visiting Australian cricket team more than 100 years ago.
Earliest detection of metal challenges what we know about the first galaxies
06 Jun 2024Astronomers have detected carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest detection of any element in the universe other...
Electrified charcoal ‘sponge’ can soak up CO2 directly from the air
05 Jun 2024Researchers have developed a low-cost, energy-efficient method for making materials that can capture carbon dioxide directly from the air.
New instrument to search for signs of life on other planets
05 Jun 2024The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement for the design and construction of ANDES , the ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle...
‘Missing’ sea sponges discovered
05 Jun 2024The discovery, published in Nature, opens a new window on early animal evolution.