Energy

Topic description and stories

Research is tackling the need to reduce energy demand, maintain energy supply, increase the efficiency of energy-requiring processes, and develop policy and pricing strategies. To find out more about our research in energy, visit the Energy Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) website.

BP and University of Cambridge sign agreement on collaboration

27 Jan 2009

A formal agreement has been signed between energy giant BP and the University of Cambridge marking their intention to expand their long-standing...

Economic and Social Research Council

01 Jan 2009

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) supports research from across the social sciences, from sociology to anthropology, through to...

New hopes for the nervous system: Parkinson's disease

01 Jan 2009

The way a common virus hijacks the cell it infects could hold the clue to combating Parkinson's disease.

Vinegarroon, Thelyphonida, uropygids, insect 19 Sept 2010

Like an arrow: jumping insects use archery techniques

01 Oct 2008

Froghoppers, the champion jumpers of the insect world, can leap 100 times their body length by using a structure similar to an archer's bow.

World’s largest experiment starts today

08 Sep 2008

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being switched on today, marking one of the most important events in modern science.

Lean machines: environmentally friendly engines

01 Sep 2008

An industrial-grade aerospace gas turbine combustion simulator – the first of its kind in the UK and one of only a dozen worldwide – is ready for ‘...

‘Super’ superalloys: hotter, stronger, for even longer

01 Sep 2008

Only a single class of engineering materials can withstand the extreme conditions deep within a jet aeroplane engine – the nickel-base superalloys...

Enhancing CAPE-abilities in photonics and electronics

01 Sep 2008

A unique model of industrial-academic partnership is demonstrating how UK R&D can stay ahead of the game in a rapidly moving electronics market...

Land of the (early) rising sun

20 Aug 2008

They say that early to bed, early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise; but in Japan, it may also be feeding a nationalist revival not seen...