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Cambridge spinout, Echion Technologies has raised £29 million in investment capital to help it increase the production of its fast-charging, long-life battery material based on niobium. Echion, a Cambridge…

The University has conferred honorary degrees to seven distinguished individuals in recognition of the achievements they have made in their respective fields. An honorary doctorate is the highest accolade the University can bestow.…

The UKRI Medical Research Council (MRC) in the UK will today present the MRC Millennium Medal 2023 to Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen, in recognition of his pioneering MRC-funded research into the prenatal sex steroid theory of autism, his…

The University of Cambridge has received £5 million funding from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to support its world-class cardiovascular disease research over the next five years, the charity has announced. This is a fantastic…

The two earliest and most distant galaxies yet confirmed, dating back to only 300 million years after the Big Bang, have been discovered using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers today…

Two decades of cuckoo research have helped scientists to explain how battles between species can cause new species to arise This exciting new finding could potentially apply to any pairs of species that are in battle with each…

3D reconstructions suggest that simple marine animals living over 560 million years ago drove the emergence of more complex life by mixing the seawater around them It’s exciting to learn that the very first animals from 580…

The winners of this year’s Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Awards have been announced. The awards, organised by Cambridge Hub and sponsored by the Vice Chancellor’s Office, recognise and celebrate…

Two Cambridge Fellows are among the new Academy of Medical Sciences Fellows announced today. Professor Nita Forouhi from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit and Professor Susan Gathercole…

The number of people killed during the Nazi Occupation of Alderney is far greater than the figure previously thought, according to a new report published today, which says more than 1,000 could have perished. shows what can be…