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Boost your life in 2025

02 January 2025

Five Cambridge experts share their top tips on ways to boost your body and mind, backed up by their own research

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Cairngorms landscape.

Return to the wild

12 Oct 2024

Ambitious collaborations are bringing biodiversity back to the Scottish Highlands.

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A row of clean energy trucks, wind turbines in the background

How road haulage is navigating the route to net zero

11 Oct 2024

Responsible for 8% of world carbon emissions, can trucking clean up its act?

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Trash into treasure: making clean fuel from waste and sunlight

09 Oct 2024

Professor Erwin Reisner and his team are developing prototype devices that convert waste, water and air into practical fuels and chemicals.

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Scottish highlands.

How to restore a landscape

09 Oct 2024

Inside the programme protecting Europe's land, sea and species.

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The cost of solar power: how low can we go?

08 Oct 2024

Professor Sam Stranks is developing next-generation solar cell technology, which could drive down renewable energy prices even further.

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William Sutherland

A man with a big idea

05 Oct 2024

With up to one million species facing extinction, Professor William Sutherland is using what he knows to help stop biodiversity loss. Because nature...

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Illustration of human brain

Mental Health Overhaul: probing the processes behind the symptoms

04 Oct 2024

A new Cambridge network is turning to basic science in a bid to advance our understanding and treatment of mental health disorders

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Jan Steen, Mother and Child (17th-century painting). Image courtesy of York Museums Trust

Early foster care gave poor women power, 17th-century records reveal

03 Oct 2024

A rare collection of 300-year-old petitions gives voice to the forgotten women who cared for England’s most vulnerable children while battling their...

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Digital image depicting a green battery

What does it take to make a better battery?

01 Oct 2024

Cambridge researchers are working to solve one of technology’s biggest puzzles: how to build next-generation batteries that could power a green...

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Skyscrapers covered in trees.

Putting business thinking into sustainability

01 Oct 2024

New thinking from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) argues that we need to flip the ESG model on its head.

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Endless Stories at Cambridge University Library

26 Sep 2024

Centuries-old Asian and African manuscripts go on display for the first time

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Plane lands at dusk

Flight path to net zero

22 Sep 2024

Global aviation could be on a flight path to net zero if industry and governments reach just four goals by 2030, according to a new report from the...

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