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Project to improve radiotherapy planning
A collaborative project between physicists, oncologists and computer scientists at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, launched last month, will develop improved tools for the planning of high precision radiotherapy. Accel-RT will also help overcome time constraints that currently limit the use of complex radiotherapy treatment.
30 January 2012
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Physics of sustainability programme launched
Funded by a £20 million donation from David Harding, the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability aims to address some of the major challenges affecting the modern world.
24 March 2011
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Research lays foundation for new era of electronics
Physicists from the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, the University of Cambridge and other institutes have successfully developed technology to enable the control and detection of spin current in a similar way to electric current.
10 January 2011
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Bright future for British solar company
Solar energy company to develop and manufacture high performance, lower cost plastic solar cells.
16 September 2010
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Behaviour of building block of nature could lead to computer revolution
A team of physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles called spinons and holons.
31 July 2009
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Sunny times ahead for solar power
A new initiative funded by the Carbon Trust hopes to make solar power an affordable choice for homeowners within 10 years.
8 February 2008
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Guiding the light
Pioneering research shines new light on our understanding of the way we see the world. Optical fibres have now been found to exist in vertebrate eyes, channelling light down their length and delivering it without distortion straight to the cells that ‘see’.
1 September 2007