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The cost of solar power: how low can we go?
Professor Sam Stranks is developing next-generation solar cell technology, which could drive down renewable energy prices even further.
8 October 2024
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Breaking Barriers: Athene Donald’s Advocacy for Women in STEM
Professor Dame Athene Donald is a retired Cavendish professor of Experimental Physics, former Gender Equality Champion for the University of Cambridge and former Master of Churchill. She’s also a first...
7 October 2024
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Listening for the early signs of cancer: new hub launches to make cancer interventions accessible to all in the UK
A major new research hub will focus on the development of low-cost, portable devices to identify and visualise cancer using optical, acoustic and photoacoustic imaging. The Optical and Acoustic Imaging...
7 October 2024
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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