Blending bioinspired design with industrial manufacturing know how, researchers at the University of Maine have developed a reusable, scalable microfluidic platform shaped by Maine’s deep paper making expertise, offering laboratories a more sustainable route to precision droplet generation.
As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Hui Wei, a Cambridge Materials Health Editorial Board Member discusses their research, recent advances in biomaterials, medical device innovations and health-related applications of materials science - and perspectives on future challenges and opportunities in the field.
Fully revised and updated, the new edition of Engineering Dynamics provides a comprehensive, self-contained and accessible treatment of classical dynamics. All chapters have been reworked to enhance student understanding, and new features include a stronger emphasis on computational methods, including rich examples using both Matlab and Python; new capstone computational examples extend student understanding, including modelling the flight of a rocket and the unsteady rolling of a disk.…
Recently, the "4th International Forum of 100 Photocatalyst Scholars (China) 2026", sponsored by Cambridge Materials, was held in Chengdu, attracting top scholars and researchers from the field of photocatalysis from all over the world.
As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Dr Rumana Hossain, UNSW Sydney, Australia a Cambridge Materials: Circularity Associate Editor discusses their research, recent advances in materials, and perspectives on future challenges and opportunities in the field.
As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Yat Li, UC Santa Cruz, USA, a Cambridge Materials: Energy Associate Editor discusses their research, recent advances in energy materials, and perspectives on future challenges and opportunities in the field.
As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Hao-Cheng Yang, Zhejiang University, China a Cambridge Materials: Water Associate Editor discusses their research, recent advances in materials, and perspectives on future challenges and opportunities in the field.
An impressively comprehensive textbook adopting a phenomenological approach to quantum physics. The chapters cover everything from basic definitions of key concepts to detailed discussions of the underlying theoretical framework… Learn more here. …
As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Volker Presser, Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany a Cambridge Materials: Water Editorial Board Member discusses their research, recent advances in materials, and perspectives on future challenges and opportunities in the field.
As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Yan Zeng, Florida State University, USA a Cambridge Materials: Energy Associate Editor discusses their research, recent advances in energy materials, and perspectives on future challenges and opportunities in the field.
As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Professor Manny Teodoro, University of Wisconsin, USA a Cambridge Materials: Water Editorial Board Member discusses their research, recent advances in materials, and perspectives on future challenges and opportunities in the field.
Professor Yanlei Yu, Fudan University, China is the recently appointed Executive Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Materials. To celebrate her appointment and the launch of the Cambridge Materials journals, she participated in a Q&A to discuss the aims of the journals and their hopes for their role as a member of the Executive Editorial Board.
Professor David Haddleton, University of Warwick, UK participated in a Q&A to discuss the aims of the Cambridge Materials journals and his hopes for his role as a an Executive Editor-in-Chief.
Professor Jason Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK is teh recently appointed Executive Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Materials. To celebrate her appointment and the launch of the Cambridge Materials journals, he participated in a Q&A to discuss the aims of the journals and their hopes for their role as a member of the Executive Editorial Board.
Dr. Seth B. Darling Argonne National Laboratory, USA is the recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Materials: Water. To celebrate the launch of the Cambridge Materials journals, they participated in a Q&A to discuss the aims of the journals and their hopes for their role as EiC.…
Professor Vincent Rotello UMass, Amherst, USA is the recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Materials: Health. To celebrate the launch of the Cambridge Materials journal, they participated in a Q&A to discuss the aims of the journals and their hopes for their role as EiC.…
Professor Tierui Zhang, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China is the recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Materials: Energy.…
Professor Veena Sahajwalla UNSW Sydney, Australia is the recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Materials: Circularity. To celebrate the launch of the Cambridge Materials journals, they participated in a Q&A to discuss the aims of the journals and their hopes for their role as EiC.…
Announcing the launch of Cambridge Materials, a suite of four new journals dedicated to advancing materials science in the service of global sustainability. Each journal focuses on a critical challenge area—Circularity, Energy, Health, and Water—and is aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Together, they will provide a unique platform where science, engineering, and policy intersect to drive real-world impact.
Pulses, including dry beans, chickpeas and lentils, are healthy, sustainable, and low cost. Pulses, however, are not currently consumed as frequently or by as many people as is currently recommended for health benefits or for planetary gain. We sought to understand why this was, what could be done to encourage pulse consumption, and whether cooking suggestions and recipes can help.
In a world increasingly concerned with both health and environmental sustainability, the way we eat plays a critical role. However, in our search for solutions for better health and a sustainable planet, we often find ourselves at a crossroads where the decisions we make can have significant trade-offs. This delicate balance between promoting human health and minimizing environmental impact is a central challenge of our time, one that requires careful consideration and informed choices. In our research we investigated whether policies such as food taxes can help the consumer make more healthy and sustainable food choices.
Across the world, every mine that opens will have to close at some point – because every resource is finite. But what does a successful closure look like, when looked at through social, cultural, economic and environmental lenses?
Cameroon has pledged to restore over a quarter of its land or 12,062,800 ha, Guatemala has pledged over 10% of its land for restoration with 1.2 million ha, India committed over 8% of its land, a staggering 26,500,000 ha to restoration, and the list of countries pledging hectares of land to restoration continues.
Why Cambridge University Press will no longer be offering deeply discounted print as part of new journals agreements.
As the 2022 ALPSP University Press Redux Conference co-organised with Cambridge University Press draws close, Ben Denne reflects on the importance of this year’s event.
As the 2022 ALPSP University Press Redux Conference co-organised with Cambridge University Press draws close, Andri Johnston highlights the sustainability panels at this year’s event.
The BCI Centenary Collections 2022 marks 100 years since the founding of the International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP) – now BirdLife International, the largest international partnership for nature conservation.…
How practical changes can result in significant environmental gains.
In 2020 Cambridge reviewed our policy of providing print copies to Editorial Board members of Cambridge-owned journals. In our Q&A with Ella Colvin , Director of Publishing – Journals, reflects on this project and our plans for a greener future.…
Transforming how we operate at conferences, by significantly reducing the number of print copies, as we seek to reduce our global organisation’s carbon footprint.
Dealing with a warming world and providing enough food for a growing planet (and doing so in a sustainable fashion that is adapted to changing climate) is one of the key challenges humanity must face in coming decades.…
‘Multispecies sustainability’ addresses a contradictory reductionism in the original definition by recognizing the interdependence of living beings and their wellbeing, and expanding the concept to non-human species and their needs An interdisciplinary team led by Senior Researcher Dr.…
The global financial system is a crucial part of the modern economy, directing financial capital efficiently and effectively to where it is most needed to create prosperity. …
We are delighted to have won the inaugural Sustainability Award at this year’s UK Independent Publishing Awards!
What are the best ways to help people and societies adopt sustainable lifestyles? Where should charities, NGOs and decision-makers put their money and effort?…
This is the second blog in a series in which we ask libraries around the world about their sustainability policies and experiences.…
Hobby metal detecting for archaeological objects is a contentious issue, not least in Europe. Especially since the 1990s, the activity has increased in popularity in many places with little prospect of this reversing.…
University Press publishers are both communicators and facilitators of research, knowledge and data. Our positioning means that we are have a unique opportunity to play a key role in addressing the global issues of 2020.…
It’s fair to say that beef is getting a bad press at the moment. Hundreds of column inches have been dedicated to the argument that – whichever way you slice it – beef is bad for the planet.…
The Materials Research Society and Cambridge University Press are pleased to announce the appointment of Y. Shirley Meng, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), as Editor-in-Chief of MRS Energy & Sustainability.
The special topic in August’s issue of animal is Multicriteria assessment of livestock systems using a graphical tool While the world has limits, the global population is growing, along with an increased demand for food.…
Could a large-enough battery cushion the swings in wind and solar power? And can renewable energy be trusted, or are we just seeing technical challenges to implementation? In a recent review article published in MRS Energy & Sustainability, energy experts weigh in on these questions and consider the challenges and opportunities for technology and policy in relation to large-scale battery storage. The article also addresses a fascinating case study from South Australia, which currently houses the world's biggest battery.
A Qualitative Assessment to Inform Sustainable Supply Chains Fundamental changes are visible around the globe; part of Mozambique was recently flooded, large Californian forest areas have burned, and glaciers are shrinking.…
The systems that help us heat and cool our homes, provide drinking water, take away our garbage, let us communicate instantly with one another and enable travel — collectively known as infrastructure — will need to be designed differently in the future to become more sustainable and resilient.
New research published within MRS Bulletin explores how materials engineers are 'hacking life' using synthetic biology. This exciting new research could lead to sustainable solutions that benefit the health and technology industries.
Some anthropologists hypothesise that we probably wouldn’t be the sophisticated, technology-driven society we are today, if our ancestors had not started to eat meat.…
We are wasting a mineral essential for our food security. A mineral without which crops and grass cannot grow, i.e. phosphorus.…
MRS Nelson Buck Robinson Science and Technology Award for Renewable Energy - for early-career researchers announced
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. And as the race to find energy sources to replace our dwindling fossil fuel supplies continues, hydrogen is likely to play a crucial role.
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
It has been more than two years since world leaders adopted the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…
The animal article of the month for October is ‘Animal Board Invited Review: Comparing conventional and organic livestock production systems on different aspects of sustainability‘.…
The story of Chicago’s development is inextricably linked to its relationship with the natural environment, beginning 16,000 years ago when an enormous glacier sat on (and flattened) the land. Ever since, urban planners and policymakers have grappled with how to manage a city built on flat, swampy land, and what to do with the animal and human waste that accumulates in urban environments.
The emerging field of corporate law, corporate governance and sustainability represents one of the most dynamic and significant areas of law in light of the convergence of crises that we as a global society face.…
Two seminal articles by energy experts in the latest issue of MRS Energy and Sustainability (MRS E&S) examine the climate-related risks facing the fossil fuel industry and conclude that the sustainability train has already well and truly left the station – and is not coming back.
Is my country sustainable? Many citizens may be asking themselves this question as the work to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals continues in 2017.…
Light-duty vehicles (LDV) are a huge source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States. To avoid the worst effects of global climate change, we need to cut these emissions by 80% by 2050.
The climate is changing. We have left the Holocene and entered the Anthropocene, the era in which human enterprise is pushing the planetary functioning of essential cycles (e.g. of CO2) into a potentially unstable regime. Human enterprise, by burning fossil fuels for electrical, heat and motive power is the central cause of climate change, and is driven by an economic system that promotes insatiable consumption.
The agricultural sector plays an important economic role in many developing countries, meaning that smallholder farmers must be at the center of the growth process in order to reduce poverty.
In the latest issue of the new journal MRS Energy & Sustainability—A Review Journal , Professor Jay Apt of Carnegie Mellon University turns the spotlight on one of the planet’s most pressing problems—how renewable energy sources can be better integrated into the existing electricity grid.
Archaeology and cultural heritage work have fully entered the digital age. Today, researchers rely on tools like 3D scanners, a variety of GIS software, and Lidar equipped drones to document the past in ways that were unimaginable just a few decades ago.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
A few months ago, we responded to a call for papers for a themed issue for Advances in Archaeological Practice entitled “Advances in Archaeological Labor Management.”…
A critical milestone for the archaeological ecosystem has been the publication this April of the National Archaeology Plan (NAP), part of a larger framework for cultural heritage that the Spanish Ministry of Culture has been developing for almost 40 years.…
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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