Articles about 'Environment'

Industrialists, academics and government should join forces to drive a new industrial revolution which would help tackle climate change, says a new report.

A remarkable light-emitting material, gallium nitride, could slash electricity consumption, purify water and kill superbugs.

New understanding of the physics of clouds is helping to model both climate change and the impact of volcanic eruptions and wild fires.

There has been speculation for many years that the human brain lives “on the edge of chaos”, at a critical transition point between randomness and order; but direct experimental evidence has been lacking.

A new way of making LEDs could see household lighting bills reduced by up to 75% in five years time, thanks to research at Cambridge University.

At first glance, reasons for researching locations as different as the Arctic and Mexico are not self-evident. But comparison is at the core of Social Anthropology and, for Dr Barbara Bodenhorn, a dual focus on these remarkably different environments is shaping a cross-cultural exchange programme between young members of three indigenous communities.

As part of a unique collaborative agreement, the Japanese government has located a new research satellite at The Nanoscience Centre, University of Cambridge.

A unique model of industrial-academic partnership is demonstrating how UK R&D can stay ahead of the game in a rapidly moving electronics market.

Academics and industry collaborate to deliver a partnership-based forum for sharing and researching best practice.

A Cambridge astronomer’s identification of the remnant of the most recent supernova in the Milky Way is set to fill in major gaps in our knowledge of the exploding stars.