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Postdoctoral Fellowships programme for Israeli scientists to pursue research at Cambridge

20 Jan 2015

A benefactor of the 探花直播 of Cambridge, Leonard Blavatnik, has made a multi-million pound pledge to provide funding for Israeli scientists of...

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Rafael Nadal @ Roland Garros

Practice really does make perfect

08 Jan 2015

New research into the way in which we learn new skills finds that a single skill can be learned faster if its follow-through motion is consistent...

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Demonstrator aircraft

Watts up - aeroplanes go hybrid-electric

23 Dec 2014

An aircraft with a parallel hybrid engine 鈥 the first ever to be able to recharge its batteries in flight 鈥 has been successfully tested in the UK...

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Active matrix electrophoretic display incorporating graphene

First graphene-based flexible display produced

05 Sep 2014

A flexible display incorporating graphene in its pixels鈥 electronics has been successfully demonstrated by the Cambridge Graphene Centre and Plastic...

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Fajitas. Banner image: ...eat meat! by James Vaughn

Changing global diets is vital to reducing climate change

01 Sep 2014

Healthier diets and reducing food waste are part of a combination of solutions needed to ensure food security and avoid dangerous climate change, say...

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Multi-coloured holograms

Nanotechnology used to create next-generation holograms for information storage

28 Aug 2014

Holograms made of tiny particles of silver could double the amount of information that can be stored in digital optical devices, such as sensors...

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A crumpled paper ball

探花直播 spin-out wins green award

27 Aug 2014

探花直播 of Cambridge spin-out Reduse, which has developed a technology to remove print from paper allowing it to be reused several times before...

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A cancer cell containing the nanoparticles.  探花直播nanoparticles are coloured green, and have entered the nucleus, which is the area in blue

鈥淭rojan horse鈥 treatment could beat brain tumours

13 Aug 2014

A smart technology which involves smuggling gold nanoparticles into brain cancer cells has proven highly effective in lab-based tests.

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Overlooking the Thames

New research aims to improve energy efficiency, cut carbon emissions and reduce costs

07 Aug 2014

Cambridge project is among those benefiting from 拢3 million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funding.

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Professor Steve Young

Speech recognition pioneer honoured

06 Aug 2014

Cambridge academic's pioneering speech technology work recognised.

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Cambridge team breaks superconductor world record

27 Jun 2014

New record for a trapped field in a superconductor, beating a record that has stood for more than a decade, could herald the arrival of materials in...

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Carbon nanotechnology

How carbon cousins shaped warfare and can electrify the future

13 Jun 2014

What links legendarily sharp Damascene swords of the past with flexible electronics and high-performance electrical wiring of the future? They all...

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