Into the underworld: the mountains beneath our feet
14 January 2025Sanne Cottaar is Professor of Global Seismology in Earth Sciences. She wants to understand Earth’s inner structure: how it shaped the surface and allowed life...
The lab making food healthier and medicine cheaper
16 December 2024Dr Nicola Patron is cultivating a new kind of biotechnology, where we can read nature’s blueprints and direct its energy to more potent ends.
Gates Cambridge: Class of 2024
17 April 2024This year’s Gates Cambridge cohort comprises 75 new scholars, studying areas from the impact of climate change on tropical biodiversity to how the circulation of...
The graduate student rewriting Deaf histories and disability histories
05 January 2024When Kirstie Stage was diagnosed with hearing loss, she realised that the experiences of Deaf and disabled people were missing from the history books. Kirstie...
The cosmologist solving questions at the boundary of our understanding
13 November 2023Hiranya Peiris is Cambridge’s new Professor of Astrophysics (1909). She discusses being inspired by Stephen Hawking, the unknown space before you arrive at an answer,...
The artist who made ink from Newton's Apple Tree
16 October 2023Nabil Ali is discovering the natural colours hidden within the berries, blooms and bark found in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden – including from a...
The Crimean Tatar who wants freedom for Ukraine to sing again
18 May 2023Displaced journalist and scholar Elmaz Asan arrived in Cambridge from Ukraine in October 2022. She sees her research as a chance to fight back against...
The poetry scholar, the Black Atlantic and the Trembling Hand
13 March 2023Mathelinda Nabugodi investigates the impact of colonialism and the slave trade on Romantic poets. Her research has taken her into the archives with unexpected results.
The Classicist who wants the ancient world to have a radical future
22 February 2023Mary Beard says the Greeks and Romans have more to say about modern society than we might think. A new set of films, aimed at...
Two Cambridge researchers awarded Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies
01 December 2022Professor Rachel Oliver and Professor Silvia Vignolini from the University of Cambridge have been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. Each...