Byzantine bullion fuelled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in Charlemagne’s Francia a century later, new tests reveal. The findings could transform our understanding of Europe’s economic and political development.
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded grants worth a total of €627 million to 308 researchers across Europe, of whom four are at the University of Cambridge.
Widening participation programme offers substantive lab-based research experience and the chance for student scientists to further develop their skills.
Researchers have designed a low-cost, energy-efficient robotic hand that can grasp a range of objects – and not drop them – using just the movement of its wrist and the feeling in its ‘skin’.
Researchers have ‘hacked’ the earliest stages of photosynthesis, the natural machine that powers the vast majority of life on Earth, and discovered new ways to extract energy from the process, a finding that could lead to new ways of generating clean fuel and renewable energy.
Cambridge researchers have observed a highly unusual behaviour in the endangered freshwater mussel, Unio crassus.
Study finds that just 8% of all depictions of AI professionals from a century of film are women – and half of these are shown as subordinate to men.
How fresh-water mussels and a stretch of the River Thames connected two postgraduate scientists separated by over half a century.
Scientists replicated a 1964 River Thames survey and found that mussel numbers have declined by almost 95%, with one species – the depressed river mussel – completely gone.
Undergraduate scientists from universities across the UK and Republic of Ireland took part in a Cambridge University widening participation programme to encourage more students to apply for postgraduate study.
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