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A tiny, flexible electronic device that wraps around the spinal cord could represent a new approach to the treatment of spinal injuries, which can cause profound disability and paralysis.

The Design Project 2024 final presentations were held at Downing College, Cambridge

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PhD student Abigail Berhane’s “outstanding” research on the detrimental impact of surface roughness on aero engine efficiency, has been recognised with an award.

Adequate electricity supply in Nigeria remains a persistent challenge but hoping to address this is Nmeso Egwuekwe (MPhil in Energy Technologies) – a recipient of a Gates Cambridge Scholarship – who will focus on energy access for at-need communities in Nigeria and beyond, as part of her PhD, which begins in October.

A hackathon held here in the Department gave participants the chance to explore the development of secure applications for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices using a novel secure architecture.

Three academics from and affiliated to the Department of Engineering are featured in the King's Birthday Honours 2024, which recognises the achievements and service of people across the UK, from all walks of life.

Machines can learn not only to make predictions, but to handle causal relationships. An international research team shows how this could make medical treatments safer, more efficient, and more personalised.

Congratulations to the six members of this Department who have been promoted as Professor - Nic Lane, Jamie Vicary, Thomas Sauerwald, Carl Henrik Ek, Tom Gur and Ferenc Huszár.

Engineers at Cambridge University have reconstructed a historic bowling machine that bowled out players from the Australian cricket team during a visit to the city more than a hundred years ago.

Congratulations to undergraduate Jakub Bachurski who has won the Undergraduate Grand Finals of the ACM Student Research Competition.

'The Atomic Human', a new book by our DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning, will try to reset the conversation around artificial intelligence when it is published this week.

Researchers have developed tiny, flexible devices that can wrap around individual nerve fibres without damaging them.

Late 2018, during their PhDs in the Engineering Department three friends started a satellite manufacturing company called Exobotics. 2020, they won their first funding; 2022, they delivered their first satellites; 2024, they are on a mission to make space accessible to everyone.

Researchers have developed a method to make adaptive and eco-friendly sensors that can be directly and imperceptibly printed onto a wide range of biological surfaces, whether that’s a human finger or a flower petal.

With the climate impact of shipping increasingly under the spotlight – accounting for around 3% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide – researchers from Cambridge and Singapore have launched a start-up that aims to visualise shipping emissions and help improve the design of future ships.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a method to produce very low-emission concrete at scale – an innovation that could be transformative in the transition to net zero.

Professor Laura Torrente leads the University's contributions to the new Manufacturing Hub

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Professor George Malliaras and Professor Mihaela van der Schaar have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences and the oldest science academy in continuous existence.

UK AI company Wayve – co-founded by alumnus Alex Kendall in 2017 while studying for his PhD at Cambridge – has secured more than $1 billion to develop AI for self-driving vehicles.

Treating organised international cyberattacks the way we treat pandemics, and using honey traps to disrupt cybercrime-for-hire marketplaces, are topics on the agenda at June's Cambridge Cybercrime Conference.