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A speed limit for spreading of coherence

Scientists at the Cavendish Laboratory have discovered a fundamental speed limit for how coherence spreads when a Bose–Einstein condensate begins to form. This finding deepens our understanding of how long-range...

13 November 2025

Table salt unlocks secrets of gold surface chemistry

Can a pinch of salt lead to better medical tests, cleaner energy, and smarter sensors? “We tend to think of chloride as an ordinary electrolyte, but it turns out to...

13 November 2025

‘Beautiful energy sandwich’ could power next-generation solar and lighting

Researchers have achieved a new level of control over the atomic structure of a family of materials known as halide perovskites, creating a finely tuned ‘energy sandwich’ that could transform how solar cells, LEDs and lasers are made.

13 November 2025

ERC Synergy Grant for nanomachinery project using light to manipulate DNA nanostructures

Being able to build nanomachinery has been a persistent dream across science fiction. With a new European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant, Cavendish researchers and their collaborators in Munich and...

6 November 2025

Meet Denario: An AI assistant for every step of the scientific process

Researchers have developed an AI-powered ‘scientific assistant’ designed to accelerate the scientific process by helping them identify new research questions, analyse and interpret data, and produce scientific documents.

4 November 2025

Cambridge team receives major boost to revolutionise optical metamaterials

Cambridge researchers have secured funding to create materials with radically new optical and mechanical properties, that can be produced at scale and low cost. The new funding, comprising of a...

28 October 2025

Annual Prizewinners’ Dinner 2025

The Cavendish Laboratory’s Annual Prizewinner’s Dinner took place on 24 October 2025. Undergraduate Prize Winners, alongside Cavendish academics, celebrated their achievements and enjoyed a formal dinner at the Cavendish Café...

27 October 2025

£1.5 million gift from The Ogden Trust helps secure the future of physics education for all

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have captured the most detailed look yet at how galaxies formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang – and found they were far more chaotic and messy than those we see today.

22 October 2025