ActNowFilm premieres at COP29
21 November 2024Youth leaders from around the planet celebrated the COP29 premiere of a new film demanding global negotiators give them a say in their own future.
Cartographers of the human body: the Human Cell Atlas
20 November 2024The Human Cell Atlas is an ambitious project to map every cell in the human body. Its co-lead, Professor Sarah Teichmann, explains how the initiative is already changing our understanding of our bodies.
Arm donates £3.5 million for Cambridge PhD students to study computer architecture and semiconductor design
20 November 2024Arm is donating £3.5 million to enable 15 PhD students over the next five years to study at CASCADE, the University's new Computer Architecture and Semiconductor Design Centre.
‘Manifest’ is Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year
20 November 2024The controversial global trend of manifesting has driven Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2024.
Northerners, Scots and Irish excel at detecting fake accents to guard against outsiders, study suggests
20 November 2024People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and Essex, new research has found.
A peek inside the box that could help solve a quantum mystery
19 November 2024An elusive particle that first formed in the hot, dense early universe has puzzled physicists for decades. Following its discovery in 2003, scientists began observing a slew of other strange objects tied to the millionths of a second after the Big Bang.
Spread the word!
18 November 2024Dr Mark Wormald helps launch Elemental Poetry Cambridge – a new project to get the city writing.
‘Teen-friendly’ mindfulness therapy aims to help combat depression
18 November 2024Researchers have developed a mindfulness therapy tailored specifically to appeal to teenagers to help them cope with increasing levels of depression and mental health problems.
Study uncovers earliest evidence of humans using fire to shape the landscape of Tasmania
15 November 2024Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier than previously thought.
New long-term collaboration with Suzano begins with a £10 million donation to support conservation and sustainability education and research
15 November 2024Suzano, one the world’s largest producers of bio-based raw materials, based in São Paulo, Brazil, establishes a long-term initiative with Jesus College and the University of Cambridge.
