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New instrument to search for signs of life on other planets
The ANDES instrument will be installed on ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert. It will be used to search for signs of life in exoplanets and...
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Earliest detection of metal challenges what we know about the first galaxies
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge observed a very young galaxy in the early universe and found that it contained...
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Five hubs launched to ensure UK benefits from quantum future
The hub, called Q-BIOMED, is one of 5 quantum research hubs announced on 26 July by Peter Kyle MP, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, supported by £160 million in...
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Astronomers uncover risks to planets that could host life
The discovery suggests that the intense UV radiation from these flares could significantly impact whether planets around red dwarf stars can be habitable.“Few stars have been thought to generate enough...
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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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Tributes 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,...
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Spinning, 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...
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Webb 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...
View Article10 Cambridge AI spinouts
Meet 10 Cambridge spinouts, all hoping to harness the potential of AI for the good of the planet and its people.
View ArticleAI can be good for our health and wellbeing
Cambridge researchers are looking at ways that AI can transform everything from drug discovery to Alzheimer's diagnoses to GP consultations.
View ArticleHundreds of A-level students see grades rise and secure places at top...
UCAS 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...
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