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Understanding the Paris Climate Summit
An event taking place next week in Cambridge will highlight some of the key scientific, technological and policy issues relevant to the Paris climate summit which begins later this month.
13 November 2015
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Graphene means business – two-dimensional material moves from the lab to the UK factory floor
A major showcase of companies developing new technologies from graphene and other two-dimensional materials took place this week at the Cambridge Graphene Centre.
6 November 2015
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Opinion: Girls can have it all: how to stop the damaging gender stereotyping in schools
Professor Dame Athene Donald (Cavendish Laboratory) discusses actions that schools can take to eradicate unnecessary gender stereotyping.
3 November 2015
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First evidence of ‘ghost particles’
Major international collaboration has seen its first neutrinos – so-called ‘ghost particles’ – in the experiment’s newly built detector.
2 November 2015
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Entanglement at heart of ‘two-for-one’ fission in next-generation solar cells
The mechanism behind a process known as singlet fission, which could drive the development of highly efficient solar cells, has been directly observed by researchers for the first time.
26 October 2015
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Closing the Gender Gap
Every year, 200,000 young people participate in access initiatives run by the University and the Colleges. This programme includes a wide range of opportunities specifically designed to inspire young women and to foster greater participation in certain areas of Higher Education and work.
2 October 2015
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Winton Symposium on green computing
On 28 September, the fourth annual Winton Symposium will be held at the Cavendish Laboratory on the theme of ‘Green Computing’.
18 September 2015
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Scientists “squeeze” light one particle at a time
A team of scientists have measured a bizarre effect in quantum physics, in which individual particles of light are said to have been “squeezed” – an achievement which at least one textbook had written off as hopeless.
1 September 2015