Experts urge government to keep focus on levelling-up health
30 September 2022Experts are calling on the Government to continue focusing on ‘levelling-up’ health, arguing that reducing the health gap is too important an agenda to abandon.
Nobel Laureates of Cambridge
30 September 2022What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize? Does it always come as a surprise? How does it change your life? Professor Didier Queloz, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics, reflects on what he says was a turning point for him.
Traumatic brain injury ‘remains a major global health problem’ say experts
30 September 2022A new report highlights the advances and challenges in prevention, clinical care, and research in traumatic brain injury, a leading cause of injury-related death and disability worldwide.
Breakthrough in understanding of how cancer spreads could lead to better treatments
29 September 2022Cambridge scientists have discovered that cancer cells ‘hijack’ a process used by healthy cells to spread around the body, completely changing current ways of thinking around cancer metastasis.
Liquid water beneath Martian polar ice cap
29 September 2022An international team of researchers has revealed new evidence for the possible existence of liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars.
Set up reserve lab capacity now for faster response to next pandemic, say researchers
28 September 2022Researchers say a ‘human bottleneck’, due to historical cuts in public health funding, delayed the UK’s scale-up of COVID-19 testing in the early stages of the country’s pandemic response.
Plan to boost support for care experienced students
27 September 2022The University of Cambridge is increasing its efforts to support students who have a care background or who are estranged from their families. It’s establishing a panel of care experienced students to advise on ways to ensure proper support is available and will be recruiting a team of mentors to help guide new students through their time at Cambridge.
Seawater could have provided phosphorous required for emerging life
27 September 2022The problem of how phosphorus became a universal ingredient for life on Earth may have been solved by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Cape Town, who have recreated primordial seawater containing the element in the lab.
Cambridge recognised for its leadership in knowledge exchange
27 September 2022Cambridge’s leadership in knowledge exchange has been recognised in the Knowledge Exchange Framework 2 (KEF2) results, published by Research England on 27 September 2022.
Next Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge appointed
26 September 2022Professor Deborah Prentice, the Provost of Princeton University, has been formally appointed as the next Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge.
