Complete clean sweep for Cambridge at The Boat Race 2025
13 April 2025Cambridge is celebrating a complete clean sweep at The Boat Race 2025, with victories in all 4 openweight races and also both lightweight races.
Cambridge research: First global bond index to address fossil fuel expansion
11 April 2025University of Cambridge researchers based at the Department for Land Economy have selected index provider Bloomberg Index Services Limited to launch the first global corporate bond index to cover fossil fuel producers, utilities, insurance, and financing, with the aim of driving investment to reduce real-economy emissions.
Museum Encounters: Parkinson's Dance Course
11 April 2025The University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) today launch a ground-breaking Parkinson's dance programme inspired by museum artefacts.
Harmful effects of digital tech – the science ‘needs fixing’, experts argue
10 April 2025From social media to AI, online technologies are changing too fast for the scientific infrastructure used to gauge their public health harms, say two leaders in the field.
Scientists create 'metal detector' to hunt down tumours
10 April 2025Cambridge researchers have created a ‘metal detector’ algorithm that can hunt down vulnerable tumours, in a development that could one day revolutionise the treatment of cancer.
Record-breaking Cambridge Festival 2025 ends on a high, uniting 45,000 visitors in celebration of ideas, discovery and dialogue
10 April 2025The fifth Cambridge Festival has drawn to a triumphant close, having welcomed a record-breaking 45,000 visitors across 385 events during 17 inspiring days.
Handheld device could transform heart disease screening
08 April 2025Researchers have developed a handheld device that could potentially replace stethoscopes as a tool for detecting certain types of heart disease.
Researchers demonstrate the UK’s first long-distance ultra-secure communication over a quantum network
08 April 2025Researchers have successfully demonstrated the UK’s first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network, including the UK’s first long-distance quantum-secured video call.
One in 3,000 people at risk of punctured lung from faulty gene – almost 100 times higher than previous estimate
08 April 2025As many as one in 3,000 people could be carrying a faulty gene that significantly increases their risk of a punctured lung, according to new estimates from Cambridge researchers. Previous estimates had put this risk closer to one in 200,000 people.
Cambridge researchers named 2025 Schmidt Science Fellows
07 April 2025Two University of Cambridge researchers are among the thirty-two early career researchers, tackling issues from improving food security to developing better medical implants, who have been announced as the 2025 Schmidt Science Fellows.
