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Dr. Bartomeu Monserrat awarded Royal Spanish Society of Physics prize

Royal Spanish Society of Physics and BBVA Foundation presented their annual awards for theoretical physics to Dr. Bartomeu Monserrat. Research in theoretical physics is fundamental and the materials we are...

16 December 2022

Dynamical fractal discovered in clean magnetic crystal

The properties and behaviour of physical systems are strongly dependent on their dimensionality. Life in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional world would be very different from the three dimensions that we...

15 December 2022

Webb telescope reaches new milestone in its search for distant galaxies

New findings confirm that JWST has surpassed the Hubble telescope in its ability to observe the early Universe

9 December 2022

2023 Cavendish PhD prize winners announced

Congratulations to the winners of the Cavendish Annual Thesis Prize. The prizes are awarded in recognition of exceptional computational, experimental and theoretical physics research by PhD students. 2023 has been...

2 December 2022

The Dolby family extend their support to create a new fund for excellence in physics

The family of the late Ray Dolby has made a further transformational commitment to the University of Cambridge, ensuring the brightest minds in physics will have the resources they need...

28 November 2022

Non-detection of key signal allows astronomers to determine what the first galaxies were – and weren’t – like

Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first astrophysical studies of the period in the early Universe when the first stars and galaxies formed, known as the cosmic dawn.

28 November 2022

Dr. Diana Fusco awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant

The European Research Council starting grant will support Dr. Fusco’s research group to develop mathematical methods and experimental validations to predict phage-bacteria co-evolution, a key step to be able to...

22 November 2022

Amy Ogle, “best man” in the Natural Sciences Tripos

Isobel Falconer describes the remarkable story of Amy Ogle, a truly pioneering women student who died tragically young. ‘My best man is Ogle,’ declared an examiner for Cambridge’s Natural Sciences...

17 November 2022