AI can be good for our health and wellbeing
07 Apr 2025Cambridge researchers are looking at ways that AI can transform everything from drug discovery to Alzheimer's diagnoses to GP consultations.
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Hundreds of A-level students see grades rise and secure places at top universities following Cambridge's STEM SMART initiative
07 Apr 2025UCAS evaluation shows the most engaged sixth formers saw their results jump by a grade on average, were up to four times as successful in achieving an A*, and around twice as successful in securing an Oxbridge place.
10 Cambridge AI spinouts
02 Apr 2025Meet 10 Cambridge spinouts, all hoping to harness the potential of AI for the good of the planet and its people.
Webb Telescope sees galaxy in mysteriously clearing fog of early Universe
26 Mar 2025Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early Universe. The surprise finding is challenging researchers to explain how this light could have pierced the thick fog of neutral hydrogen that filled space at that time.
Spinning, twisted light could power next-generation electronics
13 Mar 2025Researchers have advanced a decades-old challenge in the field of organic semiconductors, opening new possibilities for the future of electronics.
Tributes paid to first British-Pakistani Head of House
24 Jan 2025Tributes have been paid to former Master of Corpus Christi College Professor Haroon Ahmed, who has died aged 88.
Massive black hole in the early universe spotted taking a ‘nap’ after overeating
18 Dec 2024Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is ‘napping’ after stuffing itself with too much food.
10 Cambridge spinouts forging a future for our planet
25 Oct 202410 companies taking Cambridge ideas out of the lab and into the real world to address the climate emergency.
‘Inside-out’ galaxy growth observed in the early universe
11 Oct 2024Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the ‘inside-out’ growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700 million years after the Big Bang.
University of Cambridge alumni awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
09 Oct 2024Two University alumni, Sir Demis Hassabis and Dr John Jumper, have been jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting the complex structures of proteins.
