Women in STEM: Shagita Gounden
30 January 2020Shagita Gounden is a systems engineer working on the world’s largest radio telescope, an Executive MBA candidate at Cambridge Judge Business School, and a member...
Brain networks come ‘online’ during adolescence to prepare teenagers for adult life
29 January 2020New brain networks come ‘online’ during adolescence, allowing teenagers to develop more complex adult social skills, but potentially putting them at increased risk of mental...
Global dissatisfaction with democracy at a record high
29 January 2020A new report, the first from the University's new Centre for the Future of Democracy, finds that 2019 had the "the highest level of democratic discontent"...
Drug improves symptoms of autism by targeting brain’s chemical messengers
27 January 2020Bumetanide – a prescription drug for oedema (the build-up of fluid in the body) – improves some of the symptoms in young children with autism...
Pride and prejudice at high altitude
23 January 2020Tensions between foreign climbers and Sherpas began over 200 years ago, a new study suggests
Women in STEM: Professor Laura Itzhaki
23 January 2020Professor Laura Itzhaki is a group leader in the Department of Pharmacology and a Fellow of Newnham College. Here, she tells us about forming her...
The "stop doing stupid stuff" approach to sustainable manufacturing
22 January 2020Around 90% of the resources we process to create goods are not reaching the person for whom they are made. How can we make manufacturing...
Magnetised molecules used to monitor breast cancer
22 January 2020A new type of scan that involves magnetising molecules allows doctors to see in real-time which regions of a breast tumour are active, according to...
Vomiting bumblebees show that sweeter is not necessarily better
22 January 2020Animal pollinators support the production of three-quarters of the world’s food crops, and many flowers produce nectar to reward the pollinators. A new study using...
Astronomers use ‘cosmic echo-location’ to map black hole surroundings
20 January 2020Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and now astronomers have used the echoes of this radiation to map the...