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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 Laboratories 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...

The NanoFutures Scholars undergraduate research programme encourages talented students from diverse backgrounds to get a high quality research experience during an 8-week summer research internship at the EPSRC CDT in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NanoDTC). Interdisciplinary in nature, the NanoDTC attracts applicants...

This year the Teacher's Symposium was held in-person at The Cavendish Laboratory. The free two day event was for Physics and A level Maths teachers, who currently use Isaac Physics in their teaching or may explore it in future. The aim of the symposium was to network with other teachers, work in groups to gain familiarity...