Science

Obese woman injecting weight-loss drug into abdomen

Are weight loss jabs the solution to the obesity crisis?

30 Oct 2024

Almost two thirds of UK adults are overweight or obese. Are weight loss drugs the solution? Cambridge experts share their opinions.

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Azim Surani.

Journeys of discovery: Azim Surani on the earliest stages of life

24 Oct 2024

Azim Surani has followed his curiosity for over half a century, rewriting science in the process.

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Cambridge's Raj Jena becomes UK's first Professor of AI in radiotherapy

17 Oct 2024

The creation of the new Clinical Professorship signals the importance of AI in the fight against cancer and builds on the University’s work to apply...

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Illustration of T cells attacking cancer cells

Supertroopers: CAR-T cell cancer therapy

16 Oct 2024

A life-saving cancer therapy is being scaled up in Cambridge to deliver more treatments to more patients for more cancers.

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An iron meteorite from the core of a melted planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a ‘primitive’, unmelted planetesimal (right).

How did the building blocks of life arrive on Earth?

11 Oct 2024

Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth. The results...

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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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Galaxy NGC 1549, seen today and 13 billion years ago

‘Inside-out’ galaxy growth observed in the early universe

11 Oct 2024

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the ‘inside-out’ growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700...

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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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Left: Demis Hassabis; Right: John Jumper

University of Cambridge alumni awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

09 Oct 2024

Two University alumni, Sir Demis Hassabis and Dr John Jumper, have been jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing an AI...

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Volunteers collecting seagrass seed, credit: Blue Marine Foundation / Luke Helmer

Solent Seascape

09 Oct 2024

Inside the momentous effort to restore a precious marine world.

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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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Multi-coloured image of all neurons in an adult fruit fly brain

First map of every neuron in an adult fly brain complete

02 Oct 2024

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly.

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