The lab making food healthier and medicine cheaper
16 Dec 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.
Cambridge to trial cutting-edge semiconductor technologies for wider use in major European project
10 Dec 2024The University of Cambridge is one of two UK participants named as part of the PIXEurope consortium, a collaboration between research organisations from across Europe which will develop and manufacture prototypes of their products based on photonic chips.
Wrong trees in the wrong place can make cities hotter at night, study reveals
10 Dec 2024While trees can cool some cities significantly during the day, new research shows that tree canopies can also trap heat and raise temperatures at night. The study aims to help urban planners choose the best combinations of trees and planting locations to combat urban heat stress.
Pacific curators restore Indigenous voices to colonial-era collections
08 Dec 2024'Fault Lines', a new exhibition at MAA, offers an intimate exploration of Pacific cultures guided by Indigenous curators and contemporary artists from Hawai‘i, the Torres Strait, Bougainville and the Salish Sea
Professor Duncan Richards appointed as Head of Department of Medicine
06 Dec 2024Professor Duncan Richards has today been announced as the new Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge.
Imaging technique allows rapid assessment of ovarian cancer subtypes and their response to treatment
06 Dec 2024An MRI-based imaging technique developed at the University of Cambridge predicts the response of ovarian cancer tumours to treatment, and rapidly reveals how well treatment is working, in patient-derived cell models.
Cambridge researchers develop urine test for early detection of lung cancer
06 Dec 2024Cambridge scientists have developed a urine test for early detection of lung cancer. The test, the first of its kind, detects ‘zombie’ cells that could indicate the first signs of the disease.
War in Lebanon has turned a decade of education crisis into a catastrophe - report
05 Dec 2024Israel-Hezbollah conflict has deepened an education crisis in which children have lost up to 60% of schooling in 6 years, study shows.
A third of people from Chicago carry concealed handguns in public before they reach middle age
05 Dec 2024Major 25-year study reveals a ‘dual pathway’ for when people start carrying.
Professor Joya Chatterji awarded Wolfson History Prize 2024
03 Dec 2024Chatterji wins for Shadows at Noon, her genre-defying history of South Asia during the 20th century.
