Technology

Illustration of palaeo-robots.

‘Palaeo-robots’ to help scientists understand how fish started to walk on land

23 Oct 2024

The transition from water to land is one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth. Now, a team of roboticists, palaeontologists...

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Kathryn Chapman.

Hitting the right note for innovation in Cambridge

17 Oct 2024

Kathryn Chapman, Executive Director of Innovate Cambridge, on the secrets of successful innovation and her ambitious plans for innovation in...

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Cambridge's Raj Jena becomes UK's first Professor of AI in radiotherapy

17 Oct 2024

The creation of the new Clinical Professorship signals the importance of AI in the fight against cancer and builds on the University’s work to apply...

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Jack Ashby talking to the Museum's fin whale

Public invited to chat to museum animals in novel AI experiment

14 Oct 2024

Specimens in a Cambridge museum will be brought to life through the power of Artificial Intelligence, by a team aiming to strengthen our connection...

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How road haulage is navigating the route to net zero

11 Oct 2024

Responsible for 8% of world carbon emissions, can trucking clean up its act?

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Cambridge joins forces with ARIA to fast-track radical new technologies to revolutionise brain health

09 Oct 2024

A team from across the Cambridge life sciences, technology and business worlds has announced a multi-million-pound, three-year collaboration with the...

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Left: Demis Hassabis; Right: John Jumper

Cambridge City Campus alumni awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

09 Oct 2024

Two University alumni, Sir Demis Hassabis and Dr John Jumper, have been jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing an AI...

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The cost of solar power: how low can we go?

08 Oct 2024

Professor Sam Stranks is developing next-generation solar cell technology, which could drive down renewable energy prices even further.

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Left: Geoffrey Hinton (circled) at his Matriculation at King's College. Right: Illustration of Geoffrey Hinton

Cambridge City Campus alumnus awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics

08 Oct 2024

Geoffrey Hinton, an alumnus of the Cambridge City Campus, was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with John Hopfield of Princeton...

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Multi-coloured image of all neurons in an adult fruit fly brain

First map of every neuron in an adult fly brain complete

02 Oct 2024

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly.

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Solidarity drives online virality in a nation under attack, study of Ukrainian social media reveals

01 Oct 2024

While divisive social media posts get more traction in countries such as the US, a new study shows that celebrating national unity is the way to go...

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What does it take to make a better battery?

01 Oct 2024

Cambridge researchers are working to solve one of technology’s biggest puzzles: how to build next-generation batteries that could power a green...

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