Science
Are weight loss jabs the solution to the obesity crisis?
30 Oct 2024Almost two thirds of UK adults are overweight or obese. Are weight loss drugs the solution? Cambridge experts share their opinions.
Journeys of discovery: Azim Surani on the earliest stages of life
24 Oct 2024Azim Surani has followed his curiosity for over half a century, rewriting science in the process.
Cambridge's Raj Jena becomes UK's first Professor of AI in radiotherapy
17 Oct 2024The 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...
Supertroopers: CAR-T cell cancer therapy
16 Oct 2024A life-saving cancer therapy is being scaled up in Cambridge to deliver more treatments to more patients for more cancers.
How did the building blocks of life arrive on Earth?
11 Oct 2024Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth. The results...
How road haulage is navigating the route to net zero
11 Oct 2024Responsible for 8% of world carbon emissions, can trucking clean up its act?
‘Inside-out’ galaxy growth observed in the early universe
11 Oct 2024Astronomers 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...
Trash into treasure: making clean fuel from waste and sunlight
09 Oct 2024Professor Erwin Reisner and his team are developing prototype devices that convert waste, water and air into practical fuels and chemicals.
University of Cambridge alumni awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
09 Oct 2024Two University alumni, Sir Demis Hassabis and Dr John Jumper, have been jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing an AI...
Solent Seascape
09 Oct 2024Inside the momentous effort to restore a precious marine world.
Mental Health Overhaul: probing the processes behind the symptoms
04 Oct 2024A new Cambridge network is turning to basic science in a bid to advance our understanding and treatment of mental health disorders
First map of every neuron in an adult fly brain complete
02 Oct 2024The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly.