Elon Musk’s SpaceX has set a record for the number of satellites launched into orbit on a single rocket. The ambitious rideshare mission — called Transporter-1 — saw one of SpaceX’s veteran Falcon 9 boosters lift off with 143 small satellites aboard, before successfully landing at sea.
A former University of Cambridge alumna could become the first woman to walk on the moon. Kayla Barron, a Gates Cambridge Scholar and NASA astronaut, has been selected to become part of NASA’s Artemis Team. This makes Kayla eligible for the next astronaut missions, which could see her become the first woman to step foot on Earth’s only natural satellite.
A new five-storey laboratory and office building will rise at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus after plans for its construction were approved by councillors.
According to the World Mosquito Program, nearly 700 million people contract mosquito-borne illnesses each year, causing more than one million deaths.
The holidays are almost upon us and you might be thinking that it’s time to wind down your job hunting activities until at least the New Year. But why!?
The University of Cambridge has announced a five-year agreement with AstraZeneca and GSK to fund a new centre at the university, which aims to use AI to make medical discoveries, accelerate the development of precision medicine and develop new treatments.
Cambridge’s first 5G mobile private network will be constructed at the city’s Science Park, as part of a testbed due to go live in January 2021.
Demand for IT workers in Cambridge is high and that has caused tech salaries in the region to rise to become some of the highest in the whole of the UK. That’s one of the key findings to be revealed in Office for National Statistics (ONS) data compiled by job search engine Adzuna and entrepreneur network Tech Nation.
A new crop science centre, which hopes to sustainably improve farmers’ yields worldwide by translating research, has been opened in Cambridge.
With the telecommunications industry on Earth as competitive as ever, Nokia has announced that it is branching out into a new market, one that still doesn’t boast a single mobile phone tower: the Moon.