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Early career researchers win major European funding
Of 3,500 proposals reviewed by the ERC, only 14% were selected for funding – Cambridge has the highest number of grants of any UK institution.ERC Starting Grants – totalling nearly €780 million –...
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Astronomers detect black hole ‘starving’ its host galaxy to death
The international team, co-led by the University of Cambridge, used Webb to observe a galaxy roughly the size of the Milky Way in the early universe, about two billion years after the Big Bang. Like...
View ArticleWhat does it take to make a better battery?
Cambridge researchers are working to solve one of technology’s biggest puzzles: how to build next-generation batteries that could power a green revolution.
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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...
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‘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.
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Massive 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...
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