Established Academic 2024
03 February 2025The Established Academic for 2024 is Professor Sander van der Linden Department of Psychology, School of Biological Sciences and Churchill College and his team at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab.
Electricity prices across Europe to stabilise if 2030 targets for renewable energy are met
03 February 2025National targets for solar and wind power will see reliance on natural gas plummet, reducing electricity price volatility across Europe, with major beneficiaries including the UK and Ireland, the Nordics, and the Netherlands.
Tiny copper ‘flowers’ bloom on artificial leaves for clean fuel production
03 February 2025Tiny copper ‘nano-flowers’ have been attached to an artificial leaf to produce clean fuels and chemicals that are the backbone of modern energy and manufacturing.
The medic making a difference to the care of trans patients
03 February 2025Medical students are taught about some of the rarest diseases, yet do not learn something as important as how to care for trans patients. This needs to change, says intensive care specialist Luke Flower.
‘Altar tent’ discovery puts Islamic art at the heart of medieval Christianity
01 February 2025A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. Dr Federica Gigante believes the 700-year-old fresco could be the only surviving image of its kind, offering precious evidence of a little-known Christian practice.
Cambridge recognised as the UK’s leading university for global innovation
30 January 2025The University of Cambridge has been named as the leading UK university in a new report on the top 50 universities powering global innovation.
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Cambridge to drive rapid research-led economic growth
29 January 2025Cambridge is at the heart of Government plans announced on 29 January to go ‘further and faster’ to kick start economic growth in the UK.
Young adults generally more active after starting work, but sleep less – unless working from home
28 January 2025When young adults start working, the amount of daily physical activity they do increases sharply, only to fall away again over the next few years, while the amount of sleep they get falls slightly, according to new research led by scientists at the University of Cambridge.
Cambridge student thanks teacher who helped him believe in himself
27 January 2025Elijah Denning nominated Tom Lloyd, a teacher at Dudley College of Technology, for a University of Cambridge Educator of the Year Award, which he has won.
Botanic Gardens must team up to save wild plants from extinction
27 January 2025The world’s botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers.
