Above and beyond: measuring volcanic emissions with drones
06 December 2019Dr Emma Liu travels to some of the world's most active volcanoes to understand what makes them erupt. Her latest work is helping a Pacific...
Women in STEM: Dr Jenny Zhang
05 December 2019Dr Jenny Zhang is a group leader and BBSRC David Phillips Fellow in the Department of Chemistry, where she is re-wiring photosynthesis to generate renewable fuels....
Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution
05 December 2019An international group of scientists, including from the University of Cambridge, have developed a graphene composite that can ‘eat’ common atmospheric pollutants, and could be...
Green-sky thinking for propulsion and power
04 December 2019A rapid way of turning ideas into new technologies in the aviation and power industries has been developed at Cambridge’s Whittle Laboratory. Here, Professor Rob...
Drone images show Greenland Ice Sheet becoming more unstable as it fractures
03 December 2019The world’s second-largest ice sheet, and the single largest contributor to global sea level rise, is potentially becoming unstable because of fractures developing in response...
Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk
02 December 2019Proteins in our blood could in future help provide a comprehensive ‘liquid health check’, assessing our health and predicting the likelihood that we will we...
Study identifies brain networks that play crucial role in suicide risk
02 December 2019An international team of researchers has identified key networks within the brain which they say interact to increase the risk that an individual will think...
A feast for the senses
29 November 2019A mouth-watering / stomach-churning new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum explores our complex relationship with food
Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, rat study finds
28 November 2019Changes occur in the placenta in older pregnant mothers leading to a greater likelihood of poor health in their male offspring, a study in rats...
Women in STEM: Fiona Llewellyn-Beard
28 November 2019Fiona Llewellyn-Beard is a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth Sciences, where she studies salt marshes and how they store huge amounts of carbon....