A simple ‘twist’ improves the engine of clean fuel generation
24 Apr 2024Researchers have found a way to super-charge the ‘engine’ of sustainable fuel generation – by giving the materials a little twist.
Training AI models to answer ‘what if?’ questions could improve medical treatments
19 Apr 2024Machines can learn not only to make predictions, but to handle causal relationships. An international research team shows how this could make medical treatments safer, more efficient, and more personalised.
Mess is best: disordered structure of battery-like devices improves performance
18 Apr 2024̽»¨Ö±²¥energy density of supercapacitors – battery-like devices that can charge in seconds or a few minutes – can be improved by increasing the ‘messiness’ of their internal structure.
AI speeds up drug design for Parkinson’s ten-fold
17 Apr 2024Researchers have used artificial intelligence techniques to massively accelerate the search for Parkinson’s disease treatments.
Quantum leap
21 Mar 2024Meet the brilliant founder and CEO of Nu Quantum, a Cambridge spinout paving the way for a new era of quantum computing.Â
Three Cambridge researchers awarded Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies
14 Mar 2024Three Cambridge researchers – Professors Manish Chhowalla, Nic Lane and Erwin Reisner – have each been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies, to develop emerging technologies with high potential to deliver economic and social benefits to the UK.
Earth’s earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils
07 Mar 2024̽»¨Ö±²¥oldest fossilised forest known on Earth – dating from 390 million years ago – has been found in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and Somerset coast of South West England.
Genetic mutation in a quarter of all Labradors hard-wires them for obesity
06 Mar 2024New research finds around a quarter of Labrador retriever dogs face a double-whammy of feeling hungry all the time and burning fewer calories due to a genetic mutation.
Astronomers spot oldest ‘dead’ galaxy yet observed
06 Mar 2024A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers.
Neon sign identified by JWST gives clue to planet formation
05 Mar 2024̽»¨Ö±²¥winds that help to form planets in the gaseous discs of early solar systems have been imaged for the first time by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) using the noble gases neon and argon.
