Research Roundup: rock on?

Max Lian fills you in on some of the latest news from the scientific world

Peeling back food waste

Stella Pozzi discusses the new banana that doesn’t go brown and its role in reducing food waste and tackling climate change

Is Ozempic really a breakthrough drug?

Rhythm is a biped: your mother walked so you could talk

What can magic mushrooms can do for Parkinson’s disease?

One size doesn’t fit all: why understanding your genes could revolutionise your medicine cabinet

No need to reinvent the wheel

Ultra-processed food: is it as bad as they say? 

Review

More than just hocus pocus: Curious Cures at the University Library

Endometriosis treatment: same old status quo?

Is camembert the secret to a gouda memory?

Dark energy: lights out for the universe?

Lab-grown meat: what are the steaks?

Opinion

We should be more superstitious

Through the glass ceiling to the stars?

Research Round-Up: Week Seven

Ruby Jackson spotlights some of the latest scientific developments

When poison becomes cure

Opinion

The fate of science under Trump 2.0

Research Round-up

Research Roundup: Week Five

The power of plants

Research Round-up

Research Roundup: Week Three

How medical research is failing women – and how to fix it

Jade Scardham examines whether AI has the potential to resolve the gender data gap

Why are more boys born after wars?

Will DeepSeek dethrone ChatGPT?

Bacteria on the mind?

Research Round-up

Research Roundup: Week One

The munchies for Maccies?

Why some like it hot

Why do we remember the ‘good old days’?

Maya Kunchur explores why your grandparents’ stories are so often from their youth

Research Round-Up

Research Round-up: 2024 edition

Feature

The end of the world as we know it!

A breath of fresh air for respiratory medicine

Opinion

Hope for the environment in the age of Trump

Research Round-Up

Research round-up: week eight

Is epigenetics the secret to eternal youth?

Milena Aarts analyses the anti-ageing skincare claiming to change our DNA

Research Round-up: week six

Nicole Cappellazzo explains some of the latest scientific research

Let’s root for root vegetables!

Zoology

In praise of the Museum of Zoology

Microbiology

The new face of probiotics

Research Round-up: Week four

Beating the winter blues

The Elvish gene?

Panacea or pharmastate nightmare?

The myth of a peaceful death

Research Round-up: Week Two

The latest scientific research, explained by Lucie Debaig

Cambridge alumni sweep this year’s Nobel Prizes

Global Health

The next Covid-19: why future pandemics are ‘a certainty’

Research Round-up

Research Round-up: what you missed over the summer

Conservation

Helping hedgehogs and beyond

Ecology

Under pressure: the badger cull controversy

Global Health

The battle against antimicrobial resistance

Medicine

The magic of mRNA

Ruby Jackson discusses how this versatile molecule is revolutionising medicine

Not Built for This

We’re (g)in trouble

Ecology

Rescuing reds is nuts! A tail of squirrel conservation

Global Health

Does the mpox outbreak spell disaster for global health?

Bird flu – another pandemic?

British athletes love to sit and other Olympic statistics

Research Round-Up

Research Roundup: Week 9

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Research Round-Up: May Week

Behind the sneeze

Ellie Robinson investigates the science of an increasingly severe hay fever season and how to survive it

Opinion

Can AlphaFold3 make cancer history?

Opinion

Why is Botswana sending 20,000 elephants to Germany?

Opinion

The wonders of nature in Cambridge

Feature

The silent symphony of mould, paper, and time

Feature

Mastering first impressions: How your brain sizes up strangers in 7 seconds

Investigating the gender divide in STEM

Science

Research Round-Up: Holiday edition

How Cambridge bred eugenics

Lorelei Booth unravels the University’s historical relationship with eugenics 

Science

Research Round-Up: Week 8

Ananya Vijay guides us through some of the most recent and exciting discoveries from Cambridge

Opinion

Personal diet tech reveals a new face

Science

From Hockney to Hawking: The Intersection of Art and Science

Science

Ballerinas, Hamlet, and Quantum Physics

Science

Research Round-Up: Week 6

Is it over for the hangover?

Science

Tick-tock goes the clock, especially in Cambridge

Science

Looking for love? So is the entire animal kingdom.

Science

Research Round-Up: Week 3

Science

AI in scientific research: friend or foe?

Teymour Taj weighs up the opportunities and challenges that AI poses for the scientific community

Science

The Strange Death of the Intrepid Explorer

Sam Hudson considers how modern-day exploration has come to be such a farce

Science

Research Roundup: Week One

Science

Traitors: The Science of Deception

Science

‘However hard I tried to be a scientist, the press were always going to feature me as a young woman’

Science

Research Round-Up: What you missed over the winter

Could ‘protein origami’ cause the livestock industry to fold?

Science

Why you remember Last Christmas every Christmas

Opinion

What really goes on inside Just Stop Oil?

A ‘Pivotal’ moment for the move towards flying cars

A (swan) dive into the realm of Cambridge birdwatching

Joe Parham illustrates why you should venture into the avian world

Inspiring the next generation of Women in STEM

Anouk Waller-Sargent covers the Women in STEM Festival at Murray Edwards College

Space-based solar power prepares for takeoff

Research roundup: Weeks 5 & 6

Science

The aftermath of the night out

Why it pays to educate people on science

Excluding women in science can be fatal

Give it a Gove! Everything you need to know about Cambridge 2040

Research Round-Up: What you missed over the summer

The Ascent of Man at 50