A simple ‘twist’ improves the engine of clean fuel generation
24 Apr 2024Researchers have found a way to super-charge the ‘engine’ of sustainable fuel generation – by giving the materials a little twist.
Everest mountaineer’s letters digitised for the first time
22 Apr 2024Letters written by the famous mountaineer George Mallory have been made available to a global audience for the first time, in the centenary year of...
Mess is best: disordered structure of battery-like devices improves performance
18 Apr 2024The energy density of supercapacitors – battery-like devices that can charge in seconds or a few minutes – can be improved by increasing the ‘...
AI speeds up drug design for Parkinson’s ten-fold
17 Apr 2024Researchers have used artificial intelligence techniques to massively accelerate the search for Parkinson’s disease treatments.
Interspecies competition led to even more forms of ancient human – defying evolutionary trends in vertebrates
17 Apr 2024Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins, and produced a “bizarre” evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage.
Four Cambridge researchers awarded prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grants
11 Apr 2024The funding provides leading senior researchers with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, curiosity-driven projects that could lead to major...
Pork labelling schemes ‘not helpful’ in making informed buying choices, say researchers
11 Apr 2024Farmers don’t have to choose between lowering environmental impact and improving welfare for their pigs, a new study has found: it is possible to do...
An early medieval money mystery is solved
09 Apr 2024Byzantine bullion fuelled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in...
TB vaccine may enable elimination of the disease in cattle by reducing its spread
28 Mar 2024Vaccination not only reduces the severity of TB in infected cattle, but reduces its spread in dairy herds by 89%, research finds.
‘Exhausted’ immune cells in healthy women could be target for breast cancer prevention
28 Mar 2024Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created the world’s largest catalogue of human breast cells, which has revealed early cell changes in...
Unveiling Darwin's treasures: specimens from historic voyage make television debut
21 Mar 2024200-year-old plant specimens from the Voyage of the Beagle, held in the University's herbarium archives, make their television debut.
‘Cosy domesticity’ of prehistoric Fenland stilt-house dwellers
20 Mar 2024Detailed reports on thousands of artefacts pulled from “Britain’s Pompeii” reveals the surprisingly sophisticated domestic lives of Bronze Age Fen...