From quantum computing to AI infrastructure and autonomous systems, much of today’s deep tech innovation depends on how well we can control and manipulate light.
While software and systems have advanced rapidly, the underlying optical hardware hasn’t kept pace.
The University of Cambridge has received US$34.5 million from philanthropist K. Lisa Yang to support research aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of autistic people and their families. The gift is one of the largest ever philanthropic gifts for autism research to a UK university.
Cambridge Odyssey experts hope that Christopher Nolan’s film will feature enough female characters and do justice to the epic’s crucial underworld scene.
The first Global Climate Research Prize (GCRP) will be awarded during a glittering ceremony at the University of Cambridge on 10 June.
A PhD student at Trinity College has unearthed a complete, unpublished play 65 years after Peter Shaffer wrote it - and before he reignited the world of theatre with the acclaimed plays The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Equus, and Amadeus.
Scientists have found the strongest evidence to date that a condition known as Barrett’s oesophagus is the starting point for all cases of oesophageal adenocarcinoma – the most common type of oesophageal cancer in the developed world – even when telltale signs of this pre-cancerous stage are no longer visible.
Viktor Orbán has been swept from power after 16 years as Hungarian Prime Minister in a landslide victory for Péter Magyar's Tisza party. Four Cambridge researchers specialising in Hungarian history and politics give their reaction.
A year after stopping taking weight loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy, people regain on average 60% of their lost weight – but beyond this, their weight regain plateaus, with individuals managing to keep off 25% of the weight lost to treatment, say researchers at the University of Cambridge.
Suicide in autistic people originates in the inequalities they face across their lives, starting in childhood, and spanning education to employment, and health and social care, a new study by a team at Cambridge and Bournemouth Universities has found.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Deborah Prentice, welcomed the Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Micheál Martin, to Cambridge to celebrate the appointment of the University’s first Childers Professor of Irish History.
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