Recognising soil as an active, embodied information processor – constantly sensing, filtering and transforming flows of matter (e.g. rainwater) and energy (e.g. sunlight) into plant growth and nutrien...

Having managed the disease daily since her teenage years, Chris has first-hand experience of the substantial volumes of single-use medical devices required. Such items – including, for example, dispos...

Backed by the UK Government, 'Operation Blue Skies' brings together partners, including the University of Cambridge, to evaluate AI-driven flight path adjustments across North Atlantic airspace. Opera...

Researchers led by the University of Cambridge studied the role of physical pressure on the lifetime of lithium-ion batteries and found that keeping batteries under constant pressure could double thei...

Who: Dr Amy Shang, CEO at ZD Energy What: PhD from the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)’s Centre for International Manufacturing (CIM) focused on the emerging EV industry, 2010/14 Why: To accelerate ...

Now imagine a student using a wearable neural interface that detects lapses in attention and dynamically adjusts the learning environment in real time to maintain focus and optimise performance. New f...

The paper titled Exploring Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in the Built Environment: A Case Study, published in the journal Buildings (MDPI), won the award for demonstrating outstandin...

That’s what Cambridge Enterprise Ventures' portfolio company Phaseshift has set out to change by leveraging pioneering research in optic materials and their assembly from the University of Cambridge. ...

Engineering PhD student, Parfait Onema Lutundula was awarded this prize for one outstanding African scholar in Cambridge.

The paper titled Exploring Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in the Built Environment: A Case Study, published in the journal Buildings (MDPI), won the award for demonstrating outstandin...

It was during his Master of Engineering (MEng) degree at Cambridge that Andrew got the opportunity to join the Project Odysseus research team, assisting in the development and deployment of an AI visi...

Business leaders, senior government, military officials, and top research institutions from across the UK will gather at the University of Cambridge’s New Whittle Laboratory for the Frank Whittle Summ...

Our award-winning programme for women in STEMM run by the IE Cambridge team is now open for applications until the 4th of September.

The technology, commercialised by Cambridge spin-out Sorex Sensors, underpins the company’s newly launched Sorex Sentry platform – an ultra-sensitive ‘electronic nose’ capable of detecting target gase...

It was during his Master of Engineering (MEng) degree at Cambridge that Andrew got the opportunity to join the Project Odysseus research team, assisting in the development and deployment of an AI visi...

Using a combination of their ‘walking fish’ robot and computer models based on observations of real fish, the researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, found that a wide range of unrelated spec...

Manufactured on-site at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, by the Design and Technical Services team, the mini contraptions (accompanied by step-by-step build instructions) are ba...

The course began in 1966 as the Advanced Course in Production Methods and Management (ACPMM). Initially funded by 96 companies that recognised the value of graduates with practical, hands-on experienc...

James Goh, 23 – whose fascination with gyroscopes began when he saw the iconic spinning top in Christopher Nolan’s 2010 sci-fi film Inception – spun the device for 30 minutes 34.54 seconds, almost fiv...

Manufactured on-site at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, by the Design and Technical Services team, the mini contraptions (accompanied by step-by-step build instructions) are ba...

The course began in 1966 as the Advanced Course in Production Methods and Management (ACPMM). Initially funded by 96 companies that recognised the value of graduates with practical, hands-on experienc...

The inaugural Local Government AI Accelerator, launched by ai@cam – the University of Cambridge’s flagship mission on AI – is a programme that establishes a new model for how universities and local go...

To mark International Women in Engineering Day on Tuesday 23 June 2026 we celebrate Dr Sakthy Selvakumaran an Engineering Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering and Newnham College and the f...

The winners of this year's Pilkington Prizes have been presented with their awards at a special event hosted by St Catharine's College. The prizes, which have been awarded annually since 1994, recogni...

The inaugural Local Government AI Accelerator, launched by ai@cam – the University of Cambridge’s flagship mission on AI – is a programme that establishes a new model for how universities and local go...

I spent summer 2025 working at Trigon, an independent fire safety engineering consultancy. Fire engineering involves designing and implementing strategies to prevent fires, reducing fire spread, minim...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and GlitterinTech (a start-up founded by the same research group) have unveiled a fundamentally new type of optical spectrometer that delivers laboratory-g...