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Professor Peter Littlewood (1955 – 2026)

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Professor Peter Littlewood, an internationally renowned condensed matter physicist and former Head of the Cavendish Laboratory, who passed away...

19 June 2026

Cancelling laser noise in atomic quantum sensors 

Results from a UK collaboration overcome major obstacle towards building large-scale atom interferometers.    A prototype quantum sensor developed by the Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network (AION) consortium has demonstrated, for the first time, that a...

19 June 2026

Astronomers spot black hole that formed before its galaxy

The first direct mass measurement from the early universe weighs in on the debate over the origins of supermassive black holes.

28 May 2026

‘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

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

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

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

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