A new chapter in the history of evolution: Two-million-year-old DNA
07 December 2022Discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks record by one million years.
The future of farming: from eating insects to urban agriculture
07 December 2022The Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School is supporting new ventures to improve sustainability in agriculture to meet the demands of a growing global...
Born in Cambridge: Meet 10 University spinouts
07 December 202210 University spinouts that are having an impact in the UK and around the world.
The off-patent drug that could protect us from future COVID-19 variants
05 December 2022Cambridge scientists have identified a drug that can be repurposed to prevent COVID-19 in research involving a unique mix of ‘mini-organs’, donor organs, animal studies...
Pedestrians choose healthy obstacles over boring pavements, study finds
05 December 2022Up to 78% of walkers would take a more challenging route featuring obstacles such as balancing beams, stepping stones and high steps, research has found....
Two Cambridge researchers awarded Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies
01 December 2022Professor Rachel Oliver and Professor Silvia Vignolini from the University of Cambridge have been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. Each...
Fitness levels accurately predicted using wearable devices – no exercise required
01 December 2022Cambridge researchers have developed a method for measuring overall fitness accurately on wearable devices – and more robustly than current consumer smartwatches and fitness monitors...
Bird beak evolved before dinosaur extinction
30 November 2022Fossilised fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the longest-standing assumptions about the origins...
Graphene heads to the moon
30 November 2022Cambridge researchers are part of a European project testing graphene’s ability to protect spacecraft against the sticky, sharp dust on the moon’s surface – a...
COVID has 'ruptured' social skills of the world’s poorest children, study suggests
30 November 2022Two interlinked studies, involving 8,000 primary pupils altogether, indicate children lost at least a third of a year in learning during lockdown.