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A Bye-Fellow at St Catharine’s is among the scientists from the University of Cambridge who have finally worked out – 50 years since its discovery – how exactly a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the ‘powerhouses’ of our cells, allows us to make the fuel we need from sugars, a process vital to all life on Earth.

St Catharine's Main Court was visited by this fantastic fox, captured by our CCTV and alumnus Dr Adrian Murgoci (2014, Natural Sciences). Other recent wildlife spotted at Catz include bats and even a rabbit!

The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain how some modern birds and fish

Research by a postgraduate student at St Catharine's has revealed how British poets over the last 50 years such as Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a ‘lawnmower poetry microgenre’, using the machine to explore childhood, masculinity, violence, addiction, mortality and much more. Francesca Gardner, an English PhD student, argues in her article published by Critical Quarterly that this tradition goes back to the 17th-century poet Andrew Marvell who used mowing – with a scythe – to comment on the violence of the English Civil War.