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Cement recycling method could help solve one of the world’s biggest climate challenges

22 May 2024

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a method to produce very low-emission concrete at scale – an innovation that could be transformative for the transition to net zero.

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The Butterfly Effect

22 May 2024

New climate-themed art exhibition by local schoolchildren opens its wings at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

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John Milton and a page from Holinshed's Chronicles preserving Milton's censorship of a lewd anecdote

John Milton's notes identified in an influential book he once owned

15 May 2024

John Milton’s handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles , a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost...

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Teacher wins award for encouraging pupil

14 May 2024

Teacher wins Educator's Award for encouraging pupil to apply for Foundation Year.

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Revealed: face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave where species buried their dead

02 May 2024

A new documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of...

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Everest mountaineer’s letters digitised for the first time

22 Apr 2024

Letters written by the famous mountaineer George Mallory have been made available to a global audience for the first time, in the centenary year of...

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Woman wrapped in white towel checking her breast for signs of cancer

Report highlights inequalities and hidden suffering among people living with breast cancer

15 Apr 2024

Many people with breast cancer ‘systematically left behind’, say researchers in Lancet Commission led by Professor Charlotte Coles.

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Prof. Rory Naismith holding a silver Byzantine coin in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Photo: Adam Page

An early medieval money mystery is solved

09 Apr 2024

Byzantine bullion fuelled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in...

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Britain industrialised much earlier than history books claim

05 Apr 2024

Millions of historical employment records show the British workforce turned sharply towards manufacturing jobs during the 1600s – suggesting the...

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Cancer's climate innovation

04 Apr 2024

An enzyme inspired by brain cancer DNA that has the potential to slash greenhouse gas emissions from the production of nylon won the 2024 Cambridge...

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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Anna Moore

26 Mar 2024

Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and programme lead, Dr Anna Moore, discusses the NIHR BioResource’s national...

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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: George the Poet

25 Mar 2024

George the Poet is a spoken word performer whose innovative brand of musical poetry has won him critical acclaim both as a recording artist and a...

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Unveiling Darwin's treasures: specimens from historic voyage make television debut

21 Mar 2024

200-year-old plant specimens from the Voyage of the Beagle, held in the University's herbarium archives, make their television debut.

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