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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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