A new initiative funded by the Carbon Trust hopes to make solar power an affordable choice for homeowners within 10 years.

Cambridge researchers have analysed millions of patterns of potential moves to model the uncertainty of play in the ancient game of Go.

Pioneering research shines new light on our understanding of the way we see the world. Optical fibres have now been found to exist in vertebrate eyes, channelling light down their length and delivering it without distortion straight to the cells that ‘see’.

Looking deep inside the swirling dust clouds that make up stellar nurseries – the birth place of stars – can help unravel mysteries of the birth and evolution of galaxies like our own.