Four Cambridge researchers awarded European Research Council Advanced Grants
31 Mar 2023The funding will enable these researchers to explore their most innovative and ambitious ideas.
Photosynthesis ‘hack’ could lead to new ways of generating renewable energy
22 Mar 2023Researchers 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 University's economic impact
20 Mar 2023The University contributes nearly £30 billion to the UK economy and supports more than 86,000 jobs across the UK, according to a new report.
Giant underwater waves affect the ocean’s ability to store carbon
16 Mar 2023Underwater waves deep below the ocean’s surface – some as tall as 500 metres – play an important role in how the ocean stores heat and carbon, according to new research.
Scientists have new tool to estimate how much water might be hidden beneath a planet’s surface
15 Mar 2023In the search for life elsewhere in the Universe, scientists have traditionally looked for planets with liquid water at their surface. But, rather than flowing as oceans and rivers, much of a planet’s water can be locked in rocks deep within its interior.
Humanity’s quest to discover the origins of life in the universe
08 Mar 2023Scientists from the University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago have founded the Origins Federation, which will advance our understanding of the emergence and early evolution of life, and its place in the cosmos.
Researchers build more detailed picture of the movement of Greenland Ice Sheet
10 Feb 2023Researchers have found that the movement of glaciers in Greenland is more complex than previously thought, with deformation in regions of warmer ice containing small amounts of water accounting for motion that had often been assumed to be caused by sliding where the ice meets the bedrock beneath...
The largest penguin that ever lived
09 Feb 2023Fossil bones from two newly-described penguin species, one of them thought to be the largest penguin to ever live – weighing more than 150 kilograms, more than three times the size of the largest living penguins – have been unearthed in New Zealand.
New form of ice is like a snapshot of liquid water
02 Feb 2023A collaboration between scientists at Cambridge and UCL has led to the discovery of a new form of ice that more closely resembles liquid water than any other and may hold the key to understanding this most famous of liquids.
Researchers devise a new path toward ‘quantum light’
02 Feb 2023Researchers have theorised a new mechanism to generate high-energy ‘quantum light’, which could be used to investigate new properties of matter at the atomic scale.
