New 3D posters have been launched show missing people including Leah Croucher from Milton Keynes who disappeared in 2019.

The new-look missing persons posters have used the latest science and technology to better engage the public and make them more memorable.

Mum's 'renewed hope' of finding missing Leah Croucher thanks to 3D posters

Cambridge scientist Dame Athene Donald spoke to the Commons Science and Technology Committee

A renowned female physicist from Cambridge has said girls absorb the message that physics is for "white males" early in life.

Cambridge physicist condemns lack of female scientists in national curriculum

The frog species all grow to smaller than a British 1p coin

The frogs, which have been discovered by researchers from the University of Cambridge, are as small as a thumb nail.

Tiny frogs smaller than 1p coin discovered by scientists

Bella the beagle at Camp Beagle outside MBR Acres in Wyton, Cambridgeshire.
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The puppy breeding company denies the puppies will be put down because they are too old, but protesters want them to be given to welfare charities for adoption.

Protesters call for hundreds of puppies 'too old' for animal testing to be freed

The precious notebooks were found to be missing in 2001 but were not reported as stolen until 2020. (Cambridge University Library/ PA)

The missing notebooks were returned in a pink gift bag with a typed note, 18 months after police launched an investigation and notified Interpol.

‘Stolen’ Darwin manuscripts missing for 20 years mysteriously returned

Dr Robert Southall-Edwards Researcher, University of Essex with volunteer gardener Trevor Birley

Scientists at the University of Essex used equipment often used to monitor top athletes to observe volunteer gardeners and study their energy levels.

Why gardening can use as much energy as going for a jog or bike ride

The tree at Cambridge Botanical Garden is a scion of the original apple tree said to have inspired Sir Isaac Newton to formulate his theory of gravity.

Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree clone is toppled in Storm Eunice

NO ARCHIVE NO SALES EDITORIAL USE ONLY Ed Sheeran performs during day two of Capital's Jingle Bell Ball with Barclaycard at London's O2 Arena. Picture date: Saturday December 12, 2021.
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What we enjoy listening to might reveal more about us than we realise, say Cambridge academics who studied 350,000 people in 50 countries worldwide.

What your music tastes say about you: Why fans of Ed Sheeran are extroverts

"Being able to look down a microscope and think, 'I'm the first person ever to have seen this,' that's quite exciting," said the expert who made the discovery.

Scientist identifies new insect species from shape of its penis 

Magma ocean on the Moon - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center



Researchers demonstrated that the freezing of a sea of molten rock - or magma - could have lead to the formation of its surface.

Cambridge scientists work out how Moon crust was formed 

The "mixed reality technology" will make clinical training more accessible anywhere in the world, say those behind it.

The 'hologram patients' training new doctors and nurses

The supermarket ingredients that scientists say could help treat the long and short-term symptoms of Covid

A study gave patients suffering with long-term effects of the coronavirus specially formulated capsules containing probiotics to improve their gut health.

Supermarket ingredients scientists say could help in fight against long Covid

The ExoMars Rover is being tested at the European Space Agency's special Mars simulator

The Rosalind Franklin rover has been put through its paces at the simulator in Italy. 

Stevenage-built ExoMars Rover escapes sand trap in Mars mission simulator

The Prince also spent some time wandering round the city where thousands of people turned out to greed him.

Prince Charles opens AstraZeneca's new state-of-the-art £1bn headquarters

The Discover Centre is a research and development lab for AstraZeneca on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Scientists at the new AstraZeneca headquarters in Cambridge are already working on cutting-edge research.

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