The Royal Society announces election of new Fellows 2020
29 Apr 2020Nine Cambridge scientists are among the new Fellows announced today by the Royal Society.
Shedding light on dark traps
16 Apr 2020Researchers pinpoint the origin of defects that sap the performance of next-generation solar technology.
‘Wonderchicken’ fossil from the age of dinosaurs reveals origin of modern birds
18 Mar 2020The oldest fossil of a modern bird yet found, dating from the age of dinosaurs, has been identified by an international team of palaeontologists.
Half billion-year-old 'social network' observed in early animals
05 Mar 2020Some of the first animals on Earth were connected by networks of thread-like filaments, the earliest evidence yet found of life being connected in...
Large exoplanet could have the right conditions for life
27 Feb 2020Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets...
Watching magnetic nano ‘tornadoes’ in 3D
24 Feb 2020Scientists have developed a three-dimensional imaging technique to observe complex behaviours in magnets, including fast-moving waves and ‘tornadoes...
Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other
04 Feb 2020Even though they are inanimate objects, sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other, researchers have found. A team from the University of Cambridge...
Women in STEM: Shagita Gounden
30 Jan 2020Shagita Gounden is a systems engineer working on the world’s largest radio telescope, an Executive MBA candidate at Cambridge Judge Business School...
The polar explorer using Grime to break the ice
29 Jan 2020It’s not often someone compares the voices of seals to the sounds of space set to a Grime beat. But when he’s not monitoring seals from space...
Astronomers use ‘cosmic echo-location’ to map black hole surroundings
20 Jan 2020Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and now astronomers have used the echoes of this radiation to map the dynamic...
Women in STEM: Angela Harper
02 Jan 2020Angela Harper is a PhD candidate at the Cavendish Laboratory, a member of Churchill College, and a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Here, she tells us about...
The climate scientist and the planet-sized problem
06 Dec 2019Dr Emily Shuckburgh is Director of Cambridge Zero, an ambitious new University climate change initiative aimed at transitioning to a zero carbon...