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How we fell in love with shopping

20 March 2015

An exhibition of 鈥榯reasured possessions鈥 from the 15th to the 18th centuries reveals how we first fell in love with shopping, and takes us back to an age when our belongings were made by hand and passed down through the generations.

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Imaging: interpreting the seen and discovering the unseen

02 February 2015

From visualising microscopic cells to massive galaxies, imaging is a core tool for many disciplines, and it鈥檚 also the basis of a surge in recent technical developments 鈥 some of which are being pioneered in Cambridge. Today, we begin a month-long focus on research that is exploring far beyond what the eye can see, introduced here by Stella Panayotova, Stefanie Reichelt and Carola-Bibiane Sch枚nlieb.

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Trapping the light fantastic

16 June 2014

探花直播development of a 鈥榥anobarrel鈥 that traps and concentrates light onto single molecules could be used as a low-cost and reliable diagnostic test.

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