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Statement on 2022 admissions
We would like to congratulate those who successfully met the terms of their offers. This is a cohort of students who have faced immense disruption to their education so their excellent results this...
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Fervent fans keep faith with heroes even after ‘immoral acts’, study finds
The more that people express admiration for a public figure, the more likely they are to forgive and defend them after a 'moral violation', according to a new study analysing the posts from 36,464...
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Competition with China a ‘driving force’ for clean energy funding in the 21st...
The first major study of driving forces behind government funding of energy RD&D– and the public institutions generating it – over the 21st century shows that competition created by China’s rise as...
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New phases of water detected
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that water in a one-molecule layer acts like neither a liquid nor a solid, and that it becomes highly conductive at high pressures.Much is...
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Cambridge organist's musical moment of sorrow goes viral
The 27-year old Director of Music at Pembroke College and London Bridge security guard Marcella de Gale posted a recording of themselves playing George Frideric Handel’s sorrowful aria “Lascia ch’io...
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Lava from 2021 Icelandic eruption gives rare view of deep churnings beneath...
The study, published in the journal Nature and led by the University of Iceland, reports that the eruption was unusual because it was supplied by a particularly deep reservoir of magma originating...
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Regius Professor of Divinity on his role as Queen's Scottish chaplain
As Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland, I have been privileged to add my own words of appreciation.While the events that have punctuated her life have been recited, some constant features of this long...
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Nomination of candidate for Vice-Chancellor
Professor Deborah Prentice, the Provost of Princeton University, has been nominated as the next Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge.An eminent psychologist, Professor Prentice has been Provost at Princeton...
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Cambridge recognised for its leadership in knowledge exchange
The KEF provides a range of information about the knowledge exchange activities of English higher education institutions – in other words, how each institution works with external partners, from...
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Seawater could have provided phosphorous required for emerging life
Their results, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that seawater might be the missing source of phosphate, meaning that it could have been available on a large enough scale for life...
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Plan to boost support for care experienced students
Earlier this year, the University hosted an event to celebrate the achievements of students with a care background. The gathering, at Homerton College, included prospective students turning their...
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Set up reserve lab capacity now for faster response to next pandemic, say...
The researchers, who were on the front line of the UK’s early response to COVID-19 in 2020, say a system of reservist lab scientists should to be set up now to provide surge capacity that will help the...
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Breakthrough in understanding of how cancer spreads could lead to better...
The team based at the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, found that blocking the activity of the NALCN protein in cells in mice with cancer triggers metastasis.The...
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Traumatic brain injury ‘remains a major global health problem’ say experts
The report – the 2022 Lancet Neurology Commission – has been produced by world-leading experts, including co-lead author Professor David Menon from the Division of Anaesthesia at the University of...
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Experts urge government to keep focus on levelling-up health
Writing in Public Health in Practice and based on a review of all the previous literature, the team sets out a five-point framework to help level-up health and tackle health inequalities, which they...
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Acting Vice-Chancellor stresses drive for academic excellence
Professor Deborah Prentice, currently Provost of Princeton in the United States, has been nominated for the role. Dr Freeling, formerly President of Hughes Hall, is the first acting vice-chancellor in...
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Cambridge University marks Black History Month 2022
Events taking place at Cambridge include:Throughout OctoberDowning’s Early Black Cantabs Downing College, Regent Street, CambridgeArchive exhibition celebrating Downing College’s early black students,...
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New route to evolution: how DNA from our mitochondria gets into our genomes
In a study published today in Nature, researchers at the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London show that mitochondrial DNA also appears in some cancer DNA, suggesting that it acts...
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Referrals to long COVID clinic fell by 79% following roll-out of the vaccine
According to the Office of National Statistics, in July this year an estimated 2 million people in the UK were living with self-reported long COVID – that is, symptoms continuing for more than four...
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Students in Rwanda confound pandemic predictions and head back to school
Ever since the pandemic forced schools around the world to close, analysts, academics and teachers have been warning that many students in poorer countries might not return. According to some...
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