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Two-dimensional material could store quantum information at room temperature
Quantum memory is a major building block to be addressed in the building of a quantum internet, where quantum information is securely stored and sent via photons, or particles of light.Researchers from...
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Virgil has the edge on Shakespeare in helping students to love literature
The finding comes from a limited study with three groups of 15 and 16-year-old state school students taking Latin GCSE, and raises the possibility that there may be a case for expanding ancient...
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New book highlights how small biotech companies are outperforming big pharma
From Breakthrough to Blockbuster: The Business of Biotechnology, published today, shows how the small, inexperienced entrepreneurial companies making up the biotech industry have created more...
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Cambridge researchers to tackle major threats to 'UK’s vegetable garden' and...
Although covering less than 4% of England’s farmed area, the Fens produce more than 7% of England’s total agricultural production, worth £1.23 billion. But they are threatened by climate change and...
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Study reveals high rate of possible undiagnosed autism in people who died by...
A team of researchers, led by Dr Sarah Cassidy from the University of Nottingham and Professor Simon Baron-Cohen from the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, are the first to examine...
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Industry funding potentially compromising gambling addiction research, say...
Writing in The Lancet Psychiatry, a group of clinicians and scientists set out their priorities for tackling the pervasive problem of gambling addiction, or ‘gambling disorder’.Gambling disorder is a...
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Zero-carbon refrigeration spin-out sets its sights on...
Instead of using refrigerant gases with high global warming potential, Barocal’s technology uses new solid-state, temperature-changing materials. Cheap and non-toxic, these are organic materials that...
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Self-healing materials for robotics made from ‘jelly’ and salt
The low-cost jelly-like materials, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, can sense strain, temperature and humidity. And unlike earlier self-healing robots, they can also partially...
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Cambridge spin-out receives European Innovation Council grant to develop...
The European Innovation Council (EIC) has awarded the first Transition Grant to Cambridge’s Department of Engineering. The project CHARM (chemometric histopathology via coherent Raman imaging for...
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Investment in languages education could return double for UK economy
A new study from the University of Cambridge and the not-for-profit research institute RAND Europe shows that investing in languages education in the UK will return more than the investment cost, even...
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One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, many countries imposed strict lockdown measures, with workplaces and businesses closing and people forced to remain at home. Measures also included school...
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Genomic study shows that England’s travel quarantine measures were effective...
In July 2020, following the first months of the pandemic, the UK government established new rules for travellers to and from England, in order to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases being imported into...
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Drug-screening spin-out secures new funding
The funding will support the commercial development of Semarion’s SemaCyte® cell assaying platform. It will also enable further expansion of the team, as Semarion recruits scientists and engineers, and...
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Risks of using AI to grow our food are substantial and must not be ignored,...
Imagine a field of wheat that extends to the horizon, being grown for flour that will be made into bread to feed cities’ worth of people. Imagine that all authority for tilling, planting, fertilising,...
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Microscopic view on asteroid collisions could help us understand planet...
A team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, combined dating and microscopic analysis of the Chelyabinsk meteorite — which fell to Earth and hit the headlines in 2013 — to get more...
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New, nature-inspired concepts for turning CO2 into clean fuels
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, have previously shown that biological catalysts, or enzymes, can produce fuels cleanly using renewable energy sources, but at low efficiency.Their...
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Road radar to reveal York's Roman secrets
Did the Romans alter their legionary fortress at Eboracum in the late Antique period? What was the settlement around it like and how did this change? Did Eboracum receive a makeover when emperors came...
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New industry collaboration to study cryptocurrencies and other digital assets
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at Cambridge Judge Business School has announced the launch of the Cambridge Digital Assets Programme (CDAP), a research initiative in collaboration...
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Nutritious fish stocks are being squandered by salmon farming, say scientists
Scientists studying the Scottish salmon farming industry say that using only fish by-products - such as trimmings - for salmon feed, rather than whole wild-caught fish, would deliver significant...
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Students taking GCSE Ancient History worry they appear ‘elitist’ to friends...
Their perspectives are documented in a newly-published study, which argues that Ancient History’s position as a minority subject in the curriculum is reinforcing its image as the preserve of a...
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