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Amy Weatherup sits at a table, grinning, with her arms folded in front of her. Stats about Cambridge i-Teams appear next to her

Enterprising Minds: Meet founder and investor Amy Weatherup – a champion of Cambridge innovation

23 Feb 2026

Following a successful exit from an internet tech start-up, Amy Weatherup has become a pillar of the Cambridge innovation ecosystem. This is her story.

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Global award for Cambridge engineer’s research on accelerating visualisation and learning from Big Data

19 Feb 2026

Postgraduate research by Cambridge engineer Robert Sales has won the Best Student Paper Award from the world’s largest aerospace technical society.

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Professors Andrew Davison and Julian Allwood sit side by side listening to others. The front cover of the book appears next to t

Promise the Earth: why real climate action means restraint

17 Feb 2026

A new book argues that our faith in tech to solve the climate crisis is distracting us from the uncomfortable truth: that saving the planet is something all of us can and must do, now.

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Cambridge AI spin-out is helping factories become more productive, lower energy use and reduce emissions

12 Feb 2026

University of Cambridge spin-out Matta has raised $14 million in funding to transform how products are designed and manufactured.

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Cambridge engineers in Japan

Language study is helping Cambridge student engineers prepare for work in a global context

10 Feb 2026

Cambridge engineers are preparing themselves for work in a global environment with language lessons designed for their technical and cultural needs.

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A shot of a study participant's shoulders and neck. They can be seen wearing the Revoice device

‘Revoice’ device gives stroke patients their voice back

05 Feb 2026

A wearable, washable device has been developed that could help people regain the ability to communicate naturally and fluently following a stroke, without the need for invasive brain implants

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Images of a premature baby taken with the 3D camera in the neonatal incubator. Images include: RGB, depth, infra-red

A second set of eyes for nurses: researchers develop intelligent camera system for monitoring of premature babies

02 Feb 2026

Cambridge researchers have become the first to combine multiple image types – RGB, depth and infra-red – in a 3D camera set up to monitor premature babies in neonatal intensive care.

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PhD student Jack Peden is seen accepting his Helios-inspired brass medal from the Head of the Department

Jack Peden – 2025 Helios Prize winner

29 Jan 2026

PhD student Jack Peden has been announced as the winner of the Department’s 2025 Helios Prize – awarded for research on sustainable energy and/or energy efficiency.

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New Cambridge institute will support high-value medical device translation

27 Jan 2026

Uni to launch a new institute to tackle one of the biggest bottlenecks in UK medical research: turning promising lab discoveries into regulated devices tested with patients.

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An illustration of the researchers' continuous-flow reactor process

Researchers unveil energy-efficient reactor that captures and recycles methane to produce clean hydrogen and carbon nanotubes

26 Jan 2026

Researchers have successfully converted methane (natural gas) into hydrogen with low CO2 emissions alongside high-performance carbon nanotube (CNT) materials.

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