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‘Origami’ method could speed up diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease
Researchers have developed a technique that can identify errors caused by mutations linked to a range of genetic disorders, including forms of muscular dystrophy, Huntington’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which could accelerate accurate diagnosis of these conditions.
21 May 2026
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New insights into sodium-ion cathode material could help improve battery lifetime for large-scale energy storage
Researchers have uncovered new details about how a promising sodium-ion battery material changes while charging, offering a potential route to longer-lasting batteries for storing renewable energy. “Whilst there isn’t any...
20 May 2026
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Resonances create energy gaps in quasicrystals: a long-sought analytical breakthrough
New analytical work by Cavendish Laboratory researchers shows how true energy gaps can arise in quasicrystals, answering a longstanding open question about these extraordinary materials. Quasicrystals sit between ordinary crystals and fully disordered materials: their atoms...
1 May 2026
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Cavendish Laboratory and British Management University forge landmark academic partnership
The Cavendish Laboratory and British Management University in Tashkent (BMU) signed an agreement creating the BMU-Cavendish Development Initiative on 17 April 2026. This launches a pioneering initiative to establish a...
23 April 2026
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Cavendish Photography Competition 2026
From the vastness of the universe to the smallest building blocks of matter, physics operates across an extraordinary range of scales. At the Cavendish Laboratory, our research spans this full...
22 April 2026
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Active materials that move and adapt could reshape future robotics and engineering
Scientists from the University of Cambridge, working with researchers at the University of Amsterdam and University of New South Wales, are exploring a new class of active materials – materials...
14 April 2026
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UKRI funds SEQUIN to probe Earth with a hybrid quantum array, on the path to sensing the cosmos
A major grant of £1.2 million from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is funding Sensing the Earth with a novel QUantum-classical INterferometer array (SEQUIN), an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Many-Body...
2 April 2026
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The Ray Dolby Centre wins Best New Building in regional award
The Ray Dolby Centre won a Greater Cambridge Design and Construction Awards 2026, in the Best New Building (over £3m construction value) category. It also came highly commended for engineering-led...
19 March 2026
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Cambridge launches major strategic partnership with IonQ to ‘supercharge’ quantum research in the UK
The UK’s most powerful quantum computer, which will accelerate research and discovery in quantum science, engineering, and a range of other applications, will be based at the University of Cambridge...
11 March 2026