The climate crisis: towards zero carbon
26 February 2020Sir David Attenborough, Dr Jane Goodall DBE and leading Cambridge University researchers talk about the urgency of climate crisis – and some of the solutions...
'Lab in your phone' lets you play the scientific life
25 February 2020A unique, free new game – “part Sims, part Tamagotchi” – lets players inhabit a stem cell researcher as they rise through the ranks: growing...
Global coalition needed to transform girls’ education - report
25 February 2020A new report aims to provide a framework so that "governments and those in power can turn goodwill into action”.
Watching magnetic nano ‘tornadoes’ in 3D
24 February 2020Scientists have developed a three-dimensional imaging technique to observe complex behaviours in magnets, including fast-moving waves and ‘tornadoes’ thousands of times thinner than a human...
Women in STEM: Dr Karen Pinilla
20 February 2020Dr Karen Pinilla is a clinical research fellow at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre. She worked as a clinician in the breast unit at...
Watching TV helps birds make better food choices
20 February 2020By watching videos of each other eating, blue tits and great tits can learn to avoid foods that taste disgusting and are potentially toxic, a...
Cambridge researchers advise county council on net zero policy actions
19 February 2020A team of early-career researchers from the University of Cambridge are working with the county council to identify the best ways for Cambridgeshire to reach...
Shanidar Z: what did Neanderthals do with their dead?
18 February 2020Archaeologists have unearthed a Neanderthal skeleton in a famous cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Zooming in on breast cancer reveals how mutations shape the tumour landscape
17 February 2020Scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of breast cancer ever achieved, revealing how genetic changes shape the physical tumour landscape, according to...
Fixing India’s slum rehabilitation housing
13 February 2020Millions of new houses being built for former slum-dwellers are failing their residents and fuelling unnecessary energy use. New research aims to improve their design...