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When Professor Didier Queloz spotted a light emitting from a star many light years away from the Earth, he thought it signalled the end of his PhD.

Queloz jointly wins the 2019 Physics Nobel for his work on the first confirmation of an exoplanet – a planet that orbits a star other than our Sun. 

Governments are failing to understand the human-driven catastrophic risks that threaten global security, prosperity and potential, and could in the worst case lead to mass harm and societal collapse, say researchers at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge.

̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge and Tsinghua  ̽»¨Ö±²¥ signed a joint research initiative on Monday as part of efforts by both universities to tackle the urgent challenges faced by humanity.

When he’s not catching passes in the backfield and blocking the opposition, Kiran Singh Jolly – a running back with Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥â€™s American Football Club – is learning about jet engines and leading the Sikh Society.

Three Cambridge academics have been made Fellows of the Royal Society in recognition of their outstanding contributions to science.

Centuries-old manuscripts feature the works of Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles and Euripides.

Nineteen academics from a wide range of disciplines will take part in this year’s Cambridge Series of talks at the Hay Festival, one of the most prestigious literary festivals in the world.

̽»¨Ö±²¥first large-scale study of autism in China has revealed that around one in a hundred people in China has an autism spectrum condition – the same figure as found in the West.

We spoke with Cambridge’s most recent Nobel Laureate about decades of research, spin-outs, pharma giants and the booming life sciences cluster in Greater Cambridge.