Hercules Cambridge: a student-led design consultancy
Hercules Cambridge, a Cambridge university society working with firms to deliver engineering solutions, shares details of latest projects.
Cambridge Festival unveils 2022 programme
Political crises, the past, present and future of eastern world orders, the outlook for feminism, new technologies and treatments for a range of diseases, and the state of our natural world top the bill at this year’s Cambridge Festival, which returns with an extensive line-up of events.
Cambridge's Experimental Medicine Initiative - training a new breed of clinical triallist
These days, thanks to COVID, we are all aware of the importance of clinical trials in getting new treatments to patients. But only around 15% of drugs trialled are ever approved and they often fail at a very late stage, costing the pharmaceutical industry trillions of dollars.
Zetta Genomics gains £2.5m seed funding to realise the power of genomic data in precision medicine
Nina Capital, APEX Medical and Cambridge Enterprise invest in transformational open-source data technology – to deliver precision medicine at scale.
Cambridge scientists get £22.5 million boost from Cancer Research UK
Cambridge scientists are set to receive a major cash injection from Cancer Research UK.
New research centre to develop next-generation battery technologies
A newly established Cambridge research centre will work to develop next-generation batteries and battery materials, one of the major technological hurdles in the transition to a zero-carbon economy.
The life-changing artificial pancreas
Device helps manage type 1 diabetes in very young children.
Cambridge partners with Schmidt Futures in new software engineering network
Software engineers will bridge the gap between modern science and scalable complex software at four leading universities.
The Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) programme
Dr Jonathan Cullen from the Resource Efficiency Collective at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering and Lara Allen from the Centre for Global Equality are part of Climate Compatible Growth (CCG), a £38m multi-institutional programme.
Early-career researchers win major European grants
Nine Cambridge researchers have risen to the top of over 4,000 proposals to secure prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants, the most achieved by any UK institution.
Learning through ‘guided’ play can be as effective as adult-led instruction
Play-based learning may also have a more positive effect on younger children’s acquisition of important early maths skills compared with traditional, direct instruction.
Cambridge launches new Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe
With a £10 million grant awarded by the Leverhulme Trust*, the University of Cambridge is to establish a new research centre dedicated to exploring the nature and extent of life in the universe.
Templating approach stabilises ‘ideal’ material for alternative solar cells
Researchers have developed a method to stabilise a promising material known as perovskite for cheap solar cells, without compromising its near-perfect performance.
‘Battle of the sexes’ begins in womb as father and mother’s genes tussle over nutrition
Cambridge scientists have identified a key signal that the fetus uses to control its supply of nutrients from the placenta in a tug-of-war between genes inherited from the father and from the mother. The study, carried out in mice, could help explain why some babies grow poorly in the womb.
Cambridge's finest recognised in 2022 New Year's Honours
Academics and other staff associated with the University of Cambridge feature in the 2022 New Year's Honours List.
Clues to treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder found in recently evolved region of the ‘dark genome’
Scientists investigating the DNA outside our genes - the ‘dark genome’ - have discovered recently evolved regions that code for proteins associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Omicron may be significantly better at evading vaccine-induced immunity, but less likely to cause severe disease
The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 may be significantly better than previous variants at evading vaccine-induced antibodies, according to new research from Cambridge – but preliminary evidence suggests it is less likely to cause severe COVID-19 illness in the lungs.
Public health experts urge government to put health at centre of levelling up agenda
Health needs to be at the heart of the Government’s levelling up agenda, say researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Newcastle. The team has published practical guidance on how to reduce health inequalities.
Cambridge coronavirus vaccine enters clinical trial
Safety trials are underway for a Cambridge-led vaccine that could be used as a booster targeting COVID-19 virus variants and relatives that threaten future coronavirus pandemics. The first volunteer is expected to receive the vaccine today at the NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility.
Community of ethical hackers needed to prevent AI’s looming ‘crisis of trust’
A global hacker “red team” and rewards for hunting algorithmic biases are just some of the recommendations from experts who argue that AI faces a “tech-lash” unless firm measures are taken to increase public trust.
Effective tech innovators programme aims to help corporates foster intrapreneurship
The renowned University of Cambridge Impulse Programme, created to nurture the brilliant minds of international academia, business and research organisations, is now offering its entrepreneurial course to help organisations develop an intrapreneurial ethos and accelerate innovative change.
Half of all drinkers risk exceeding legal driving limit by underestimating how drunk they are
As many as a half of all drinkers underestimated how drunk they were, judging themselves still safe to drive despite having exceeded the legal driving limit, in new research published today.
Colour-changing magnifying glass gives clear view of infrared light
By trapping light into tiny crevices of gold, researchers have coaxed molecules to convert invisible infrared into visible light, creating new low-cost detectors for sensing.
Interactive tool helps people decide how best to protect themselves and others from COVID-19
Is it risky to sing in a choir? What are the risks of eating in a small restaurant? How much difference does it make to open windows or clean surfaces? New interactive tool helps people make decisions on COVID-19.
Miniature grinding mill closes in on the details of ‘green’ chemical reactions
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a new approach for observing mechanochemical reactions — where simple ingredients are ground up to make new chemical compounds and materials that can be used in anything from the pharmaceutical to the metallurgical, cement and mineral industries.