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Earliest detection of metal challenges what we know about the first galaxies

Astronomers have detected carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest detection of any element in the universe other than hydrogen.

6 June 2024

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New instrument to search for signs of life on other planets

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement for the design and construction of ANDES, the ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph.

5 June 2024

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New milestone for the Ray Dolby Centre as construction is completed

The completion and handover of the Ray Dolby Centre, the new home for the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, has taken place on Thursday 30th...

30 May 2024

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Cambridge pioneers to explore Universe’s first stars and rare beauty decays

Cambridge physicists Hannah Übler and Harry Cliff are amongst the new cohort of ten emerging UK science leaders to be awarded an Ernest Rutherford Fellowship by the UKRI Science and...

22 May 2024

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2D Materials: A Catalyst for Future Quantum Technologies

Cambridge researchers have discovered that a ‘single atomic defect’ in a layered 2D material can hold onto quantum information for microseconds at room temperature. This underscores the broader potential of...

20 May 2024

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Webb detects most distant black hole merger to date

An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has used the James Webb Space Telescope to find evidence for an ongoing merger of two galaxies and their massive black holes when the Universe was only 740 million years old. This marks the most distant detection of a black hole merger ever obtained and the first time that this phenomenon has been detected so early in the Universe.

16 May 2024

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Strictly No Dancing

Researchers based at the University of Cambridge have discovered a way to stop the quantum dance of atoms ‘seen’ by electrons in carbon-based organic molecules. This development will help improve...

8 May 2024

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