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Artist's impression of 55 Cancri e orbiting its parent star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The most detailed map of a small, rocky ‘super Earth’ to date reveals a planet almost completely covered by lava, with a molten ‘hot’ side and solid ‘cool’ side. Read more: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/map-of-rocky-exoplanet-reveals-a-lava-world

Built by undergraduates working for their exams, with funds raised by the students themselves, Cambridge's solar car is the only British entry into the World Solar Challenge. Despite the odds, however, its radical design could still secure victory. - See more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/resolution-ready-to-shine-down-under#sthash.J5JFhIVd.dpuf

The first in a new range of powerful superconductors which could revolutionise the production of machines like hospital MRI scanners and protect the national grid have been developed by engineers at the University of Cambridge. Professor David Cardwell explains what superconductors are, why we need them, and how he and his team have devised techniques to make them more powerful than ever before.

Last episode, we talked about how we got to where we are now with climate change, but do we even know what’s going on with climate change right now? In this episode we’ll talk about what tipping points we’re approaching, how and why we’re still struggling to gain momentum toward action on climate change, and what difference it would make if carbon dioxide was a brown smelly substance. To

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered a novel genetic cause of severe obesity which, although relatively rare, demonstrates for the first time that genes can reduce basal metabolic rate -- how the body burns calories. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/novel-genetic-mutations-cause-low-metabolic-rate-and-obesity

Want to learn how to row but worried about falling into the River Cam? Well Downing College's rowing tank maybe a good place to work on your technique before getting into an actual boat. The tank officially opens on Saturday 21st April. For more information visit their website: http://www.cambridgerowingtank.co.uk

Why do you get a fountain? We have shown that, to get a fountain, when a link of the next link of chain from the is pulled into motion by the tension in the chain above it, it must also be pushed into motion by the pot. The existence of this new force will require us to re-examine some very old ideas about energy loss and chain pickup. We made an explanatory video

The relocation of the Herbarium's one million pressed and dried plants to their new home in the University's state-of-the-art Sainsbury Laboratory is turning up hundreds of unique specimens never seen since their collection centuries ago. http://cambridgeherbarium.org/

Winner Best short film at the Scinema Science film festival 2010. Where and what is nano? How will it shape our future? Nanoscience is the study of phenomena and manipulation of materials at the nanoscale, where properties differ significantly from those at a larger scale. The strange world of nanoscience - it can take you into atoms and beyond the stars.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Institut of Teknologi Bundung, in Indonesia, are working together to understand earthquake risk at the site of Indonesia’s new capital city, which is being relocated from Jakarta to Nusantara, in Indonesia Borneo. Their work could help build the city in a way that is protected from earthquakes. Read more :

Research provides insight into feasibility of virus becoming airborne transmissible It might be possible for human-to-human airborne transmissible avian H5N1 influenza viruses to evolve in nature, new research has found. The findings, from research led by Professor Derek Smith and Dr Colin Russell at the University of Cambridge, were published today, 22 June in the journal Science.

Explore our range of online and in person events for more advice about applying to Cambridge and preparing for student life: www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/events Three of our new students and their parents tell us about preparing for their university experience. #GoingToCambridge

Forbes lists Ifeyinwa Frederick as one of the top 100 female founders in Europe after she set up Chuku's, a Nigerian Tapas restaurant she co-founded with her brother Emeka. Ifeyinwa studied Classics at Robinson College and is about to see her new play 'The Hoes' premiere on the Hampstead Theatre this October. Visit the Black Cantabs exhibition at the University Library, for more details visit:

Cell biology and evolutionary medicine. Professor Sir Paul Nurse (Rockefeller University, New York, USA). Summary: Darwins ideas of the tree of life and natural selection continue to inform medicine and biomedical research. For example, the single tree of life means that model organisms from bacteria to mice can be recruited to better understand human health and disease, whilst natural selection

Researchers have captured the first 3D video of a living algal embryo turning itself inside out, from a sphere to a mushroom shape and back again. The results could help unravel the mechanical processes at work during a similar process in animals, which has been called the “most important time in your life.” Read more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/upside-down-and-inside-out

Why does one of the world's great research libraries have ectoplasm, a spirit trumpet and beard hair posted to Charles Darwin? The answers lie within 'Curious Objects' at Cambridge University Library, which runs until March 2017 and is open free to the public. For more information about Curious Objects, click here:

A photoreceptor molecule in plant cells has been found to moonlight as a thermometer after dark – allowing plants to read seasonal temperature changes. Scientists say the discovery could help breed crops that are more resilient to the temperatures expected to result from climate change. Find out more here:

These tiny oil droplets may hold a key to a new mechanism that drives the development of shapes and forms in nature, a process known as morphogenesis. When the droplets are slowly frozen, they shift through a range of different shapes. This shape-shifting is driven by a wax-like layer that forms beneath the surface of the droplets, suggesting that complex morphogenesis may be controlled by the

If you want to learn more about studying as an postgraduate student, sign up for our November Virtual Open Days here: https://bit.ly/PGOpenDays2021 You can sign-up to the student newsletter to keep in touch with the University of Cambridge here: https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/find-out-more/student-newsletter Jackson Wo attends Jesus College and is studying for a PhD in Material Sciences

Matt Coombes moved to Cambridge from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and quickly found a new family at his College and on his course. Fear of being away from home should never be a thing that puts people off, he says. Find out about applying to Cambridge: http://bit.ly/ApplyCambridge-M Matt is a Land Economy student at Homerton College. He went to Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy in Gateshead.