The conservationist helping us to make better decisions
04 June 2021Bill Sutherland has started a revolution in conservation. Put simply he’d “like us to stop doing the things that we know don't work and do...
Cambridge researchers awarded the Millennium Technology Prize
18 May 2021British duo Professor Shankar Balasubramanian and Professor David Klenerman have been awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for their development of revolutionary DNA sequencing techniques.
Humans who search
12 March 2021Stefanie Reichelt had long felt there was a disconnect between the public’s perception of scientists and reality. Armed with only a camera and a chair,...
Professor Ruth Cameron receives Suffrage Science award on the scheme’s tenth anniversary
08 March 2021Professor Ruth Cameron from Cambridge’s Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy is one of twelve winners of this year’s Suffrage Science awards. She and the...
The neuroscientist who champions LGBT+ equal rights
26 February 2021Duncan Astle is a neuroscientist on a mission to understand why the brains of some children develop differently to others – and how it affects...
The cosmologist modelling the Universe with maths
18 February 2021Dr Tobias Baldauf likes nothing better than seeing an equation ‘cross reality’. His work is helping us to answer some of the remaining questions about...
The scientist watching light at a millionth of a millionth of a second
10 February 2021When she’s not making atomic-scale changes to create super-efficient light bulbs and cut carbon emissions, Professor Rachel Oliver has her sights set on helping to...
Lynn Gladden named as Queen Elizabeth Prize judging panel chair
02 February 2021Professor Dame Lynn Gladden, from Cambridge’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, has been appointed as the new chair of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for...
Tackling COVID-19: Dr Ben Underwood
04 January 2021Ben Underwood’s expertise in delivering clinical trials became highly prized last year, as he worked on a vaccine trial the whole world was watching.
Reflections on a year of fighting COVID-19
11 December 20202020 will be forever remembered for COVID-19. As the year draws to a close, Dr Estée Török looks back at how colleagues across the NHS...