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King’s College has begun installation of 438 new solar panels on its iconic Chapel. The panels will reduce the College’s carbon emissions by more than 23 tons each year - the equivalent of planting 1,090 trees.

Cambridge wants to make sure new technologies, like artificial intelligence, are used for the good of humankind, so the University is launching the Institute for Technology and Humanity. The Institute will study how new technology can benefit our world, and the existential risks it may bring.

“CamAPS has been a godsend,” says Ian, father to nine-year-old Eddie who has type 1 diabetes. See how the app has transformed one child's life.

Christine Holt knew she’d solved one of the key puzzles of how brains wire-up, but convincing others was no easy matter.

The University of Cambridge and Google are building on their long-standing partnership with a multi-year research collaboration agreement and a Google grant for the University’s new Centre for Human-Inspired AI to support progress in responsible AI that is inspired by and benefits people. 

An international team of scientists, including from the University of Cambridge, have launched a new research collaboration that will leverage the same technology behind ChatGPT to build an AI-powered tool for scientific discovery.

Kerry James Marshall, one of the leading international artists working today, has donated a portrait of prolific author, literary scholar and award-winning filmmaker Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. to the University of Cambridge

Cambridge Zero Director Professor Emily Shuckburgh will take centre stage at the world's biggest climate event of its kind in New York, where she will talk to global leaders of government, business and philanthropy about Cambridge’s efforts to tackle climate change.

U.S. voters who don’t trust universities are also more likely to believe that human activity doesn’t cause climate change, a new collaborative study from researchers at the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) revealed in PLOS Climate this week. 

The largest ever study of the genetics of the brain – encompassing some 36,000 brain scans – has identified more than 4,000 genetic variants linked to brain structure. The results of the study, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, are published in Nature Genetics.