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Air filter significantly reduces presence of airborne SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19...
While the discovery could have implications for improving the safety of repurposed ‘surge wards’, the researchers say it also opens up the possibility of being able to set standards for cleaner air to...
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The importance of international partnerships for universities
You’ve spoken recently about the need to think carefully about how and why a university engages with the world. What brought about this reflection?If you look at the tectonic shifts taking place in...
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Cambridge Dictionary names 'perseverance' Word of the Year 2021
Perseverance has been looked up more than 243,000 times on the website in 2021, the first time it has made a noticeable appearance. Defined by the dictionary as ‘continued effort to do or achieve...
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Justinianic Plague was nothing like flu and may have hit England before...
The Justinianic Plague is the first known outbreak of bubonic plague in west Eurasian history and struck the Mediterranean world at a pivotal moment in its historical development, when the Emperor...
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Mystery of high-performing solar cell materials revealed in stunning clarity
The most commonly used material for producing solar panels is crystalline silicon, but achieving efficient energy conversion requires an energy-intensive and time-consuming production process to create...
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International partnerships and funding from China and Hong Kong | Blog
The University of Cambridge has engaged in countless collaborations with international partners throughout our history. We have always believed that the best way to tackle seemingly intractable global...
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Two-metre COVID-19 rule is ‘arbitrary measurement’ of safety
A team of engineers from the University of Cambridge used computer modelling to quantify how droplets spread when people cough. They found that in the absence of masks, a person with COVID-19 can...
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Cambridge to tackle barriers to postgraduate education
The University is delighted to have been awarded two significant grants by the Office for Students (OfS) and Research England (RE) to deliver innovative and ambitious programmes designed to improve the...
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For the brain, context is key to new theory of movement and memory
How is it that a chef can control their knife to fillet a fish or peel a grape and can wield a cleaver just as efficiently as a paring knife? Even those of us less proficient in the kitchen learn to...
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‘Super jelly’ can survive being run over by a car
The soft-yet-strong material, developed by a team at the University of Cambridge, looks and feels like a squishy jelly, but acts like an ultra-hard, shatterproof glass when compressed, despite its high...
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Get In Cambridge widening participation campaign wins digital excellence awards
Developed in partnership with students and digital agency Battenhall, the campaign’s second phase– launched in 2020 - features a series of videos specifically created to encourage more applications...
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Remembering the tragedy at Fishmongers' Hall
“Two years on from the death of Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt, our thoughts are with their families, with their friends, and with all those Cambridge colleagues who endured the horror of the day’s...
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Collaboration could enable cancer patients to get faster and more...
Building on research supported by The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research and Cancer Research UK, the collaboration aims to address the problems of fragmented or siloed data and disconnected patient...
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‘Transformational’ approach to machine learning could accelerate search for...
The method, called transformational machine learning (TML), was developed by a team from the UK, Sweden, India and Netherlands. It learns from multiple problems and improves performance while it...
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Miniature grinding mill closes in on the details of ‘green’ chemical reactions
The study, published in Nature Communications and led by Cambridge Earth Sciences’ Dr Giulio Lampronti, observed reactions as materials were pulverised inside a miniaturised grinding mill — providing...
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Interactive tool helps you decide how to protect yourself and others from...
A new interactive graphic developed by UK researchers and published by The BMJ will help people decide what to do in everyday situations to protect themselves, and others, from COVID-19.Based on...
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Colour-changing magnifying glass gives clear view of infrared light
Detecting light beyond the visible red range of our eyes is hard to do, because infrared light carries so little energy compared to ambient heat at room temperature. This obscures infrared light unless...
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Campaign donors help students at Cambridge
The first phase was aimed at UK Black undergraduate students, and the second at British Pakistani and Bangladeshi students. Grants ranging from £12,000 to £20,000 have been given to nine postgraduates...
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Drinkers risk exceeding legal driving limit by underestimating how drunk they...
Worldwide, drunk driving is a major problem, despite decades of health promotion activities. Road traffic injuries have become the leading killer of people aged five to 29 years, and recently, the...
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New centre to foster global conversations about ethical issues raised by science
Major scientific breakthroughs deepen our understanding of nature and ourselves. Such discoveries have the potential to transform our everyday lives. Yet the same science that holds promise for...
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