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Historic buildings could use solar panels to protect from rising energy costs

Installing solar panels could help historic buildings beat the rising costs of energy, according to a new study.

3 February 2022

Theorising the physical mechanism of ferroelectricity in twisted bilayers

Danny Bennett and Benjamin Remez are two PhD students in the Theory of Condensed Matter group. Devising their project completely on their own, they have developed the first theoretical description...

24 January 2022

Towards quantum simulation of false vacuum decay

By shaking an optical lattice potential, researchers in Cambridge have realized a discontinuous phase transition in a strongly correlated quantum gas, opening the door to quantum simulations of false vacuum...

20 January 2022

Early-career researchers win major European grants

Cambridge has been awarded ten European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants, more than any other UK institution

13 January 2022

European funding success for two Cavendish early-career researchers

Alice Thorneywork and Robert-Jan Slager are two of the 397 early-career researchers who have won prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants, following the first call for proposals under the...

10 January 2022

Cambridge launches new Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe

With a £10 million grant awarded by the Leverhulme Trust, the University of Cambridge is to establish a new research centre dedicated to exploring the nature and extent of life in the Universe.

10 January 2022

Templating approach stabilises ‘ideal’ material for alternative solar cells

Researchers have developed a method to stabilise a promising material known as perovskite for cheap solar cells, without compromising its near-perfect performance.

23 December 2021

Could acid-neutralising life-forms make habitable pockets in Venus’ clouds?

A new study shows it’s theoretically possible. The hypothesis could be tested soon with proposed Venus-bound missions.

20 December 2021