CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Erwin Reisner
12 Mar 2024Professor Erwin Reisner is the Professor of Energy and Sustainability. He is an expert in renewable energy and sustainable chemistry, in particular...
Marking International Women’s Day at the Cambridge Festival
08 Mar 2024From pre-eclampsia and its lasting impact on women’s health to inequitable distribution of domestic and caring labour in different-sex couples to an...
Earth’s earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils
07 Mar 2024The oldest fossilised forest known on Earth – dating from 390 million years ago – has been found in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and...
Genetic mutation in a quarter of all Labradors hard-wires them for obesity
06 Mar 2024New research finds around a quarter of Labrador retriever dogs face a double-whammy of feeling hungry all the time and burning fewer calories due to...
Astronomers spot oldest ‘dead’ galaxy yet observed
06 Mar 2024A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers.
Neon sign identified by JWST gives clue to planet formation
05 Mar 2024The winds that help to form planets in the gaseous discs of early solar systems have been imaged for the first time by the James Webb Space Telescope...
AI at Cambridge Festival 2024
05 Mar 2024Election disruption, deepfakes, the metaverse and more will be explored and debated by Cambridge University researchers.
Romani storytelling, amazing animals and science fun for all: A feast of family fun at the Cambridge Festival 2024
05 Mar 2024The Cambridge Festival family weekend is back on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 March. Taking place across the New Museums Site in the centre of Cambridge...
Astrolabe reveals Islamic–Jewish scientific exchange
04 Mar 2024The identification of an eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever...
Pythagoras was wrong: there are no universal musical harmonies, study finds
27 Feb 2024The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony, new research shows. The findings challenge...
Opinion: the future of science is automation
26 Feb 2024Professor Ross King from Cambridge's Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, who originated the idea of a 'Robot Scientist', discusses...
Shimmering seaweeds and algae antennae: sustainable energy solutions under the sea
22 Feb 2024How could tiny antennae attached to tiny algae speed up the transition away from fossil fuels? This is one of the questions being studied by...