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University of Cambridge alumni awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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 model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting the complex structures of proteins.

9 October 2024

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

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

8 October 2024

Breaking Barriers: Athene Donald’s Advocacy for Women in STEM

Professor Dame Athene Donald is a retired Cavendish professor of Experimental Physics, former Gender Equality Champion for the University of Cambridge and former Master of Churchill. She’s also a first...

7 October 2024

Listening for the early signs of cancer: new hub launches to make cancer interventions accessible to all in the UK

A major new research hub will focus on the development of low-cost, portable devices to identify and visualise cancer using optical, acoustic and photoacoustic imaging. The Optical and Acoustic Imaging...

7 October 2024

Cambridge Welcomes QuanTour: A Quantum Journey Across Europe

The Cavendish Laboratory is excited to be the host of QuanTour, an exciting European outreach initiative celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025.  QuanTour brings a cutting-edge...

4 October 2024

What does it take to make a better battery?

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

1 October 2024

Dark energy in the early universe could solve two major problems in cosmology

A new study by an international team of physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as “early dark energy” could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology, and fill...

13 September 2024

Astronomers detect black hole ‘starving’ its host galaxy to death

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host galaxies of the fuel they need to form new stars.

12 September 2024