Friends and colleagues from the University of Cambridge have paid tribute to Professor Stephen Hawking, who died today at the age of 76. Widely regarded as one of the world’s most brilliant minds, he ...

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Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

Milestone moment as learning programme continues to support UK schools amid national shortage of specialist physics teachers ...

Andrés Alfonso-Rojas has analysed giant anaconda fossils from South America to deduce that these tropical snakes reached ...

Research into parental support needs is informing Cambridge Children’s Hospital’s commitment to provide a ‘whole family’ approach to care.

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago, in 1525. It still influences how we think ...

In 1925, Payne-Gaposchkin became the first person to earn a doctoral degree (PhD) in astronomy from Harvard University. Her ...

Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, ...

A Cambridge researcher offering new hope to people with brain tumours is the focus of a documentary exploring the science behind the next big breakthroughs.

Human-driven changes to landscapes worldwide are ‘thinning out’ the ecological services supplied by wild birds, eroding the ...

A lab-based screening has discovered over 150 common industrial chemicals, from pesticides to flame retardants, that have a ...