What was the Star of Bethlehem?
23 December 2024It’s a key feature of a school nativity play, but what’s the science behind the Star of Bethlehem?
Cambridge Children’s Hospital moves ahead as plans for new hospital approved by ministers
27 August 2024Major milestone for first specialist children’s hospital in the East of England.
New Cambridge-developed resources help students learn how maths can help tackle infectious diseases
19 February 2024Cambridge mathematicians have developed a set of resources for students and teachers that will help them understand how maths can help tackle infectious diseases.
Cancer isn’t fair – but care should be
04 February 2024Listening to people's lived experiences is helping to improve the awareness and uptake of cancer care. On World Cancer Day, we take a look at some of the ways researchers are working with communities to ‘close the cancer care gap’.
Services across England now lag far behind East Germany, as experts call for ‘universal basic infrastructure’ in UK
05 December 2023Per capita access to hospitals, mental health services, and further education facilities in German towns and cities – primarily in the former GDR – now outstrip equivalent areas in England, often several times over, according to research.
‘Bone biographies’ reveal life and times of medieval England’s common people
01 December 2023Researchers have given medieval Cambridge residents the ‘Richard III treatment’ to reveal the hard-knock lives of those who lived in the city during the University's earliest years.
The Fens of eastern England once held vast woodlands
24 November 2023The Fens of eastern England, a low-lying, extremely flat landscape dominated by agricultural fields, was once a vast woodland filled with huge yew trees, according to new research.
University of Cambridge and Cambridge United announce strategic partnership
25 October 2023The University of Cambridge and Cambridge United Football Club have agreed a new partnership with the shared ambition of working together to help the wider city and the community, supporters, and current and prospective students.
The artist who made ink from Newton's Apple Tree
16 October 2023Nabil Ali is discovering the natural colours hidden within the berries, blooms and bark found in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden – including from a very special tree.
Roadside hedges can reduce harmful ultrafine particle pollution around schools
13 September 2023A new study led by Cambridge University confirms that planting hedges between roadsides and school playgrounds can dramatically reduce children’s exposure to traffic-related particle pollution.