University of Cambridge alumni awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
In 2020, Hassabis and Jumper of Google DeepMind presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that...
View Article‘Inside-out’ galaxy growth observed in the early universe
This galaxy is one hundred times smaller than the Milky Way, but is surprisingly mature for so early in the universe. Like a large city, this galaxy has a dense collection of stars at its core but...
View ArticleThe cost of solar power: how low can we go?
Professor Sam Stranks is developing next-generation solar cell technology, which could drive down renewable energy prices even further.
View Article10 Cambridge spinouts forging a future for our planet
10 companies taking Cambridge ideas out of the lab and into the real world to address the climate emergency.
View ArticleMassive black hole in the early universe spotted taking a ‘nap’ after overeating
Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before hibernating for the winter, or a much-needed nap after Christmas dinner, this black hole has overeaten to the point that it is lying dormant in its host...
View ArticleTributes paid to first British-Pakistani Head of House
Professor Ahmed, the first British-Pakistani Head of House, had a distinguished academic career centred on research interests in the physics and technology of nanoscale electronic devices,...
View ArticleSpinning, twisted light could power next-generation electronics
The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge and the Eindhoven University of Technology, have created an organic semiconductor that forces electrons to move in a spiral pattern, which could...
View ArticleWebb Telescope sees galaxy in mysteriously clearing fog of early Universe
A key goal of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has been to see further than ever before into the distant past of our Universe, when the first galaxies were forming after the Big Bang, a...
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