Secret to treating ‘Achilles’ heel’ of alternatives to silicon solar panels revealed
24 May 2022A team of researchers from the UK and Japan has found that the tiny defects which limit the efficiency of perovskites – cheaper alternative materials...
The psychiatrist who faced a dilemma but couldn’t turn his back on his people
23 May 2022Children in West Africa with cognitive difficulties are going undiagnosed because the tests used to assess their mental health are based on Western...
Questers, are you ready...
20 May 2022Explore the science behind Cambridge - from Dorothy Hodgkin, who identified the structure of insulin to Alan Turning, who devised a theory of...
Low-cost battery-like device absorbs CO2 emissions while it charges
19 May 2022Researchers have developed a low-cost device that can selectively capture carbon dioxide gas while it charges. Then, when it discharges, the CO2 can...
Immune cell characteristics mapped across multiple tissues
13 May 2022Previously underexplored immune cell populations have been genetically mapped across multiple tissues to provide new insights into how our immune...
Algae-powered computing: scientists create reliable and renewable biological photovoltaic cell
12 May 2022Researchers have used a widespread species of blue-green algae to power a microprocessor continuously for a year – and counting – using nothing but...
150-year-old specimens that proved some mammals lay eggs
12 May 2022The specimens, collected in the late 1800s by the scientist William Caldwell, were found in the stores of Cambridge’s University Museum of Zoology.
Nine Cambridge scientists among the new 2022 Fellows announced by the Royal Society
10 May 2022The nine Cambridge researchers were all selected for their exceptional contributions to science.
The PhD student who wants to change the way we think about food
04 May 2022When Gates Cambridge Scholar Clara Ma participated in the Veganuary challenge she didn’t realise it would change the course of her PhD. Today she’s...
Six new species of tiny frog discovered in Mexico
27 Apr 2022The size of a thumbnail, they don't have a tadpole stage and live in a 'secret world' on the forest floor
Cambridge academics win European Research Council Advanced Grants
26 Apr 2022Nine Cambridge academics have won Advanced Grants awarded by the European Research Council (ERC). This is the greatest number of grants won by a UK...
Scientists crack egg forging evolutionary puzzle
12 Apr 2022A genetic study of Zambian cuckoo finches has solved one of nature’s biggest criminal cases, an egg forgery scandal two million years in the making...