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New exoplanet think tank will ask the big questions about extra-terrestrial...
With funding from The Kavli Foundation, the think tank will bring together some of the major researchers in exoplanetary science – arguably the most exciting field in modern astronomy – for a series of...
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A tight squeeze for electrons – quantum effects observed in ‘one-dimensional’...
Scientists have controlled electrons by packing them so tightly that they start to display quantum effects, using an extension of the technology currently used to make computer processors. The...
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Students invent new technology to improve later life
As part of their Master of Research programme at the University’s EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications last year, the ten students were given 12 weeks to develop...
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Cambridge alumni win 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
David Thouless (Trinity Hall, 1952), Duncan Haldane (Christ’s, 1970) and Michael Kosterlitz (Gonville and Caius, 1962) discovered unexpected behaviours of solid materials - and devised a mathematical...
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Ultra-thin quantum LEDs could accelerate development of quantum networks
Ultra-thin quantum light emitting diodes (LEDs) – made of layered materials just a few atoms thick – have been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge. Constructed of layers of...
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Researchers road-test powerful method for studying singlet fission
Physicists have successfully employed a powerful technique for studying electrons generated through singlet fission, a process which it is believed will be key to more efficient solar energy production...
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Two Cambridge researchers recognised by the inaugural Royal Society Athena Prize
Professor Valerie Gibson (Cavendish Laboratory) and Dr Mateja Jamnik (Computer Laboratory) have both received a Royal Society award for their efforts to increase and advance women in science,...
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World’s 'smallest magnifying glass' makes it possible to see individual...
For centuries, scientists believed that light, like all waves, couldn’t be focused down smaller than its wavelength, just under a millionth of a metre. Now, researchers led by the University of...
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Funding for innovative teaching and learning projects
The award offers grants of up to £20,000 for University staff to fund creative projects. It aims to promote innovative practice in teaching and learning techniques by providing start-up funding for...
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Rotating molecules create a brighter future
Writing in Science this week, the team, from the University of Cambridge, the University of East Anglia and the University of Eastern Finland, describes how it developed a new type of material that...
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Scientists construct a stable one-dimensional metallic material
The researchers, from the Universities of Cambridge and Warwick, have developed a wire made from a single string of tellurium atoms, making it a true one-dimensional material. These one-dimensional...
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LIGO detects gravitational waves for third time
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, demonstrating that a new window in astronomy has been firmly...
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How to train your drugs: from nanotherapeutics to nanobots
Chemotherapy benefits a great many patients but the side effects can be brutal.When a patient is injected with an anti-cancer drug, the idea is that the molecules will seek out and destroy rogue tumour...
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Smallest-ever star discovered by astronomers
The smallest star yet measured has been discovered by a team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge. With a size just a sliver larger than that of Saturn, the gravitational pull at its...
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Vice-Chancellor’s awards recognise the difference researchers make to society
The announcement was made at a prize ceremony held at the Old Schools on 13 July. At the same event, one of Cambridge’s leading experts on EU law – and in particular, Brexit – received one of the Vice...
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Non-toxic alternative for next-generation solar cells
The team of researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the United States, have used theoretical and experimental methods to show how bismuth – the so-called “green element” which sits next to...
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Defects in next-generation solar cells can be healed with light
The international team of researchers demonstrated in 2016 that defects in the crystalline structure of perovskites could be healed by exposing them to light, but the effects were temporary.Now, an...
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Cambridge scientist leading UK’s £65m scientific collaboration with US
This week, UK Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson signed the agreement with the US Energy Department to invest the sum in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and the Deep Underground...
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Winton Symposium tackles the challenge of energy storage and distribution
Storage and distribution of energy is seen as the missing link between intermittent renewable energy and reliability of supply, but current technologies have considerable room for improvements in...
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Synthetic organs, nanobots and DNA ‘scissors’: the future of medicine
In a new film to coincide with the recent launch of the Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences, researchers discuss some of the most exciting developments in medical research and set out their...
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