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Karen Yu

Novel Thoughts #3: Karen Yu on George Lucas' Star Wars

15 Jun 2015

New film series Novel Thoughts reveals the reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists and peeks inside the covers of the books that have played a...

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Let’s get statted

03 Jun 2015

With more information than ever at our fingertips, statisticians are vital to innumerable fields and industries. Welcome to the world of the datarati...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥Royal Society announces election of new Fellows 2015

07 May 2015

̽»¨Ö±²¥Royal Society has announced the election of its new Fellows, including five Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ academics, who join an eminent list of...

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 ̽»¨Ö±²¥radiation pattern from a dipole antenna showing symmetry breaking of the electric field

New understanding of electromagnetism could enable ‘antennas on a chip’

09 Apr 2015

New understanding of the nature of electromagnetism could lead to antennas small enough to fit on computer chips – the ‘last frontier’ of...

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Brain Art

Thinking inside the box

31 Mar 2015

New research into the phenomenon of design fixation – allowing prior experience to blind us to new possibilities – may help in the development of new...

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Cambridge awarded £18 million in funding to support UK infrastructure research

24 Mar 2015

Funding announced by the Chancellor in last week’s budget is part of a wider £138 million programme to support the UK’s infrastructure and cities.

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Health-conscious concrete

23 Mar 2015

Roads that self-repair, bridges filled with first-aid bubbles, buildings with arteries… not some futuristic fantasy but a very real possibility with...

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'Extreme sleepover #15' – keeping the lights on in rural Uganda

20 Mar 2015

Stephanie Hirmer travelled to Moyo in northern Uganda to ask which possessions the villagers most value and why. ̽»¨Ö±²¥results will be used to help...

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Rendered schematic of holographic pixels in operation showing switching states

Real-time holographic displays one step closer to reality

16 Mar 2015

Researchers from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge have designed a new type of pixel element and demonstrated its unique switching capability, which could...

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Graphene flowers

̽»¨Ö±²¥European roadmap for graphene science and technology

24 Feb 2015

Europe's Graphene Flagship lays out a science and technology roadmap, targeting research areas designed to take graphene and related two-dimensional...

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Model of graphene structure

Graphene’s potential for energy conversion and storage

19 Feb 2015

Scientists working with Europe's Graphene Flagship and the Cambridge Graphene Centre have provided a detailed and wide-ranging review of the...

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 ̽»¨Ö±²¥view from the top of the stands of Lee Valley VeloPark, London.

Sports calibrated

06 Feb 2015

New methods of gathering quantitative data from video – whether shot on a mobile phone or an ultra-high definition camera – may change the way that...

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