The cost of solar power: how low can we go?
08 October 2024Professor Sam Stranks is developing next-generation solar cell technology, which could drive down renewable energy prices even further.
University of Cambridge alumnus awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
08 October 2024Geoffrey Hinton, an alumnus of the University of Cambridge, was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with John Hopfield of Princeton University.
Ultra-powered MRI scans show damage to brain’s ‘control centre’ is behind long-lasting Covid-19 symptoms
08 October 2024Damage to the brainstem – the brain’s ‘control centre’ – is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a study suggests.
The price of ecological breakdown
08 October 2024Cambridge researchers are investigating the economic consequences of climate change and biodiversity loss, and identifying ways to drive a more sustainable global economy.
Cambridge celebrates positive contributions to research culture
07 October 2024Colleagues from across the University were recognised for their contributions to research culture at the inaugural Research Culture Celebration event on 30 September.
A man with a big idea
05 October 2024With up to one million species facing extinction, Professor William Sutherland is using what he knows to help stop biodiversity loss. Because nature can’t wait.
Mental Health Overhaul: probing the processes behind the symptoms
04 October 2024A new Cambridge network is turning to basic science in a bid to advance our understanding and treatment of mental health disorders
Early foster care gave poor women power, 17th-century records reveal
03 October 2024A rare collection of 300-year-old petitions gives voice to the forgotten women who cared for England’s most vulnerable children while battling their local authorities.
First map of every neuron in an adult fly brain complete
02 October 2024The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly.
Solidarity drives online virality in a nation under attack, study of Ukrainian social media reveals
01 October 2024While divisive social media posts get more traction in countries such as the US, a new study shows that celebrating national unity is the way...