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Professor Sam Stranks and his team have secured a €3 million ERC Consolidator Grant for the VAPOURISE project, developing high-efficiency perovskite semiconductors for sustainable energy and quantum technology.

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Imagine if a simple urine test could detect cancer in its earliest stages. Our researchers, led by Prof Ljiljana Fruk, have made this a reality with a breakthrough method, supported by Cancer Research UK, that could save countless lives by catching lung cancer earlier, when treatment is most effective.

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Paula Moreno-Mendoza and George Fulham have devised a method to make liquid hydrogen production more efficient, enabling cleaner aviation with contrail-free emissions and reduced environmental impact.

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CEB's Professor Sam Stranks secures a €3 million grant for next generation of sustainable energy solutions.

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Can we use AI to help regulate AI? Researchers here will pose the question at a conference this Sunday, just weeks before parts of the EU's new AI Act – the world’s first comprehensive law on the use of AI – come into effect.

Can we use AI to help regulate AI? Researchers here will pose the question at a conference this Sunday, just weeks before parts of the EU's new AI Act – the world’s first comprehensive law on the use of AI – come into effect.

AgriFoRwArdS – the world's first EPSRC CDT in Agri-Food Robotics – is developing a new generation of highly skilled researchers and leaders in robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) with interdisciplinary expertise.

Researchers at CEB have developed a method to improve the energy efficiency of liquid hydrogen production, a promising fuel for reducing aviation emissions. By optimising hydrogen liquefaction, the approach could lower environmental impacts, with contrails forming free of carbon-based particulates, offering a pathway to...

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Imagine if discovering you have early-stage cancer could be as simple as peeing in a jar. How many lives could be saved if a quick, non-invasive test detected cancer months or even years before symptoms appeared? Thanks to a team led by Professor Ljiljana Fruk, this vision is closer to becoming reality.

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Alumnus Alex Kendall, co-founder and CEO of Wayve – a pioneer in Embodied AI for autonomous driving – returned to Cambridge recently to give a lecture as part of the Department of Engineering’s 150th anniversary celebrations.

At our Research Showcase in January, we'll highlight our research in human-centred computing & human-machine interaction. Topics will range from creating 'digital twins' of buildings to resolving ambiguities in human-robot conversations.

By studying how light reflects from the surface of metals, engineers can now tell if manufactured parts meet quality control standards. This time- and cost-effective technology opens new avenues for quality control of safety-critical metal components, such as those used in aerospace.

CEB researchers, led by Professor Sam Stranks, secure €3 million grant for next generation of sustainable energy solutions.

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Jonathan Fisher was shortlisted for the 2024 James Dyson Award for his wearable biomedical device designed to help people suffering from Parkinson’s disease to regain their ability to walk by alleviating the symptoms of freezing of gait.

A start-up pioneering nanophotonic lens technology for images that are always in focus – recreating human vision for the ultimate virtual reality (VR) experience – has secured $5.3 million to bring the technology to market. AllFocal Optics is co-founded by Professor Daping Chu (CSO) and alumni Dr Pawan Shrestha (CEO) and Dr Xin Chang (CTO).

The transition from water to land is one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth. Now, a team of roboticists, palaeontologists and biologists are using robots to study how the ancestors of modern land animals transitioned from swimming to walking, about 390 million years ago.

At this year’s Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) Distinguished Lecture, Professor Mark Girolami explored engineering’s vital role in addressing some of humanity’s most pressing challenges—environmental sustainability, healthcare and security.

Massive craters have been appearing in the rural tundra of Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula, some up to 70 metres across, seemingly without explanation. These strange gouges in the landscape prompted concern from the scientific community and had no obvious cause.

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If errors in an operating system enable a virus or malware to infect it, it can lead to security breaches or financial losses. Now a researcher here has been awarded a Royal Society Fellowship to look for better methods to verify if systems software is correct.

Turning 'hearable' gadgets like earbuds into genuinely reliable devices for measuring human health is the goal of a new research project that is shortly getting underway.