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CiW – Inspiring future women role models

Cavendish Inspiring Women (CiW) mission is to raise visibility of many leading women academics, entrepreneurs, business women and women in industry who come from physics backgrounds. These women play an important...

3 August 2022

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Isaac Physics Teacher Symposium 2022

This year the Teacher’s Symposium was held in-person at The Cavendish Laboratory. The free two day event was for Physics and A level Maths teachers, who currently use Isaac Physics...

27 July 2022

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AI tackles the challenge of materials structure prediction

Researchers have designed a machine learning method that can predict the structure of new materials with five times the efficiency of the current standard, removing a key roadblock in developing advanced materials for applications such as energy storage and photovoltaics.

27 July 2022

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Astronomers develop novel way to ‘see’ first stars through fog of early Universe

A team of astronomers has developed a method that will allow them to ‘see’ through the fog of the early Universe and detect light from the first stars and galaxies.

21 July 2022

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Flip the switch: the tech in 35 million phones

How tiny vibrations in minute metal structures – and a little bit of luck – helped make mobile phones faster and more efficient.

20 July 2022

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HERA Project – Impacting local development through employment creation and encouraging participation of researchers in South Africa

The University of Cambridge is one of the seven international institutions, outside of South Africa, that collaborated on the international project – HERA, Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array. HERA, is...

13 July 2022

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Seeing recharging of lithium-ion batteries with fibre Raman spectroscopy

Similar to a blood test, Raman spectra of battery electrolytes provide unique information on their chemical state-of-health. Dr Tijmen G Euser Improved analytical tools are urgently required to identify degradation and...

3 July 2022

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Krishanu Dey wins the 2022 IET Hudswell International Research Award

PhD student Krishanu Dey has been announced as the winner of 2022 IET Hudswell International Research Scholarship, which will allow him to explore exciting light emission applications of emerging halide...

30 June 2022