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Department of Engineering

  • The cellular switch that explains why humans aren’t nocturnal

  • Alumni Stories: Meet Thomas Sutton driving continuous improvement in sugar processing

  • Changing flight paths could slash aviation’s climate impact, study suggests

  • From Headstart to the frontiers of personalised intelligence

  • To the Moon – Cambridge alumna’s key role in historic Artemis II mission

Undergraduate Study

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Graduate Study

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Research

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Latest news

The cellular switch that explains why humans aren’t nocturnal

23 Apr 2026

Differences in cellular pathway activity flip the switch from nocturnality to diurnality and explain a major evolutionary change humans have undergone.

Alumni Stories: Meet Thomas Sutton driving continuous improvement in sugar processing

20 Apr 2026

Thomas has built a career driven by a passion for improving manufacturing. 

Changing flight paths could slash aviation’s climate impact, study suggests

16 Apr 2026

Small changes to aircraft flight paths to avoid the atmospheric conditions that create condensation trails – known as contrails – could reduce aviation’s global warming impact by nearly half.