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Cambridge Welcomes QuanTour: A Quantum Journey Across Europe

The Cavendish Laboratory is excited to be the host of QuanTour, an exciting European outreach initiative celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025.  QuanTour brings a cutting-edge...

4 October 2024

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What does it take to make a better battery?

Cambridge researchers are working to solve one of technology’s biggest puzzles: how to build next-generation batteries that could power a green revolution. 

1 October 2024

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Dark energy in the early universe could solve two major problems in cosmology

A new study by an international team of physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as “early dark energy” could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology, and fill...

13 September 2024

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Astronomers detect black hole ‘starving’ its host galaxy to death

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host galaxies of the fuel they need to form new stars.

12 September 2024

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Discovery of a new phase of matter in 2D which defies normal statistical mechanics

Physicists from the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge have created the first two-dimensional version of the Bose glass, a novel phase of matter that challenges statistical mechanics. The details of the...

11 September 2024

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Kapitsa’s Crocodile

#AnniversaryStory  If you are at the Old Cavendish on Free School Lane, you may have seen the above image of a crocodile. But did you know that it could have...

14 August 2024

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Nora Sidgwick at the Cavendish Laboratory

#AnniversaryStory  The ‘rogues’ gallery’ of graduate students in the Cavendish Laboratory from 1897 onwards is a popular display for alumni and visitors, who enjoy seeing themselves, their colleagues and lecturers...

6 August 2024

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How photoacoustics could transform cancer detection and monitoring

6 August 2024