Lindsay Hooper wants to rewrite the rules of the global economy. She leads the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership: a global network of over 40,000 leaders trying to make it profitable to protect the planet’s health.
Meet Emily Shuckburgh, Director of Cambridge Zero. She’s been a figurehead of climate science for decades, bringing her prowess to the University, the British Antarctic Survey, the United Nations and beyond.
Kathryn Chapman, Executive Director of Innovate Cambridge, on the secrets of successful innovation and her ambitious plans for innovation in Cambridge and beyond.
10 Cambridge spinouts on putting their research into practice to improve outcomes for cancer patients - and why Cambridge is a great place to do this.
The creation of the new Clinical Professorship signals the importance of AI in the fight against cancer and builds on the University’s work to apply the latest technology to the world’s major challenges.
A life-saving cancer therapy is being scaled up in Cambridge to deliver more treatments to more patients for more cancers.
If we don’t stop global temperatures – both on land and at sea – from rising, the Great Barrier Reef could become a coral graveyard. A team of scientists has decided to do something about it.
Specimens in a Cambridge museum will be brought to life through the power of Artificial Intelligence, by a team aiming to strengthen our connection with the natural world and reverse apathy towards biodiversity loss.
Ambitious collaborations are bringing biodiversity back to the Scottish Highlands.
Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth. The results suggest that without ‘unmelted’ asteroids, there may not have been enough of these compounds on Earth for life to emerge.
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