Two fourth year students at the University of Cambridge are working with e-Go aeroplanes LLP to create an aircraft that pushes the boundaries of design; not only high performance, but also very low weight and good fuel economy.

Jason Rentfrow explains how analysis of over three-quarters of a million online surveys has been used to build a "map" of the USA.

Cambridge and Oxford Universities sealed the Prentice Cup as their joint Men’s tennis team overcame their Harvard-Yale counterparts.

They call it imposter syndrome: it’s the heart-sinking feeling you get when you feel that the people around you have quite the wrong idea about you. For example that you are incredibly brainy like them when you have not a single intelligent thought in your head and want to bolt for home.

Professor Nigel Slater, from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, describes how the influx of ideas and principles from non-biological disciplines is shaping a new biology.

Many UK manufacturers have transferred their production to low-cost regions to reduce costs. But a new study has discovered that these savings are not as substantial as they first seemed.

Ex-Formula One champion Damon Hill was on hand at Silverstone yesterday as Cambridge University student Oliver Turvey was awarded the first ever Cambridge Blue for motor Sport.

Jack Cadman goes to a comprehensive in Loughton and wants to study economics; Emerald Sherlock-Mold is a pupil at a large state school in Sheffield and has a talent for languages; Eve Annable attends a Further Education college in Birkenhead and is passionate about English.

Hundreds of pupils, the majority of them from "non-traditional" backgrounds, will benefit from challenging Summer Schools run by Cambridge Admissions Office and individual Colleges in the next two months.

“Cambridge is a lot better than I’d imagined – bigger and newer – and it’s not all antique and stuffy,” said Amin Dualeh, 17, a student at Longley Park Sixth Form College in Sheffield, who is interested in a career in aeronautical engineering.