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This blog is part of an interview series by Tara Murphy. pic.jpg Tara Murphy I’m Tara, a NanoDTC student here at the Cavendish Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. Since arriving here last year, I’ve come to realise the exceptional work being carried out by the brilliant women at the Cavendish Laboratory and I think...

Can plastic materials be smart and intelligent? This is one of the questions that Prof. Eugene Terentjev’s research group is investigating at the Cavendish Laboratory. Their research on polymer science is moving at fast pace to develop all kinds of plastics and make them smart and intelligent. With only one dream: to (re)...

This blog is part of an interview series by Tara Murphy. pic.jpg Tara Murphy I’m Tara, a NanoDTC student here at the Cavendish Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. Since arriving here last year, I’ve come to realise the exceptional work being carried out by the brilliant women at the Cavendish Laboratories and I...

Unsuccessful landings are the main obstacle to the success of most space missions; this comes at a great economic cost (e.g., NASA’s Genesis rough landing). Furthermore, the quantity of space debris surrounding Earth keeps increasing very fast: there are already approximately 34,000 objects greater than 10 cm, and 128...