Environment

The Bioenergy Initiative is bringing biology and engineering together to address the challenge of meeting our future energy needs.

Despite our best efforts, social mobility in the UK does not seem to be improving. Diane Reay, Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge...

Mother birds communicate with their developing chicks before they even hatch by leaving them messages in the egg, new research by a team from the...

The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.

Industrialists, academics and government should join forces to drive a new industrial revolution which would help tackle climate change, says a new...

A remarkable light-emitting material, gallium nitride, could slash electricity consumption, purify water and kill superbugs.

There has been speculation for many years that the human brain lives “on the edge of chaos”, at a critical transition point between randomness and...

A new way of making LEDs could see household lighting bills reduced by up to 75% in five years time, thanks to research at Cambridge University.