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Bulletproof nuclei? Stem cells exhibit unusual absorption property.

22 April 2014

A team of University of Cambridge researchers including biologists, engineers and physicists, have published a paper in the journal Nature Materials in which they report having observed auxeticity in the nuclei of embryonic stem cells, master cells within the body which can turn into any other type of cell. See more at...

Phase Transiting to a New Quantum Universe

11 April 2014

Recent insight and discovery of a new class of quantum transition opens the way for a whole new subfield of materials physics and quantum technologies. This week an article in Nature Physics reports the results on quantum properties of ferroelectric crystals, led by Stephen Rowley, together with Siddharth Saxena and...

Cavendish PhD student wins SET for Britain Silver Medal for Physics

19 March 2014

The Parliamentary and Scientific Committee runs the SET for BRITAIN event in collaboration with seven scientific societies including the IOP and with private sector and institutional sponsorship. The winner of this year's Silver Medal and £2,000 was Jan Mertens , a PhD student in the NanoPhotonics Group of the Cavendish...

Smart Glass - Could antireflective self-cleaning windows increase the efficiency of solar cells?

21 February 2014

A newly-developed coating could enable buildings to have anti-reflective self-cleaning windows and could increase the efficiency of solar cells. Porous films, which use similar properties to those seen in moth eyes in combination with nanoparticles, are being developed into robust, self-cleaning antireflective coatings for...

Suchitra Sebastian and Google's Solve for X

20 February 2014

Google's Solve for X 2014 Last week, Dr Suchitra Sebastian presented a Moon Shot proposal on a new generation of superconductors at Google's Solve For X 2014 meeting. All 18 Moon Shot proposals can be found here .

Resolving the mystery of what happens inside batteries

20 February 2014

CavMag 11 focussing on Women in the Cavendish

20 February 2014

We are delighted to report that The Cavendish Laboratory Magazine "CavMag" issue 11 is now available. This issue has a special focus on women in the Cavendish and has been guest edited by Prof Valerie Gibson. Hard-copies may be requested from headsec@phy.cam.ac.uk , or may be downloaded from http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/alumni...

ERC awards grants to Cavendish Academics

17 January 2014

The ERC have announced the awards of ERC Consolidator Grants to Dr Mete Atature in AMOP and Dr Pietro Cicuta in BSS; and of an ERC Synergy Grant to Prof Henning Sirringhaus in OE/ME. European Research Council

The Institute of Physics 2013 Young Medal and prize awarded to Professor Jeremy Baumberg FRS

15 January 2014

We are pleased to announce that Professor Jeremy Baumberg, Head of the Nanophotonics Research Group has been awarded The Institute of Physics Young Medal and prize. Prof James Stirling CBE FRS Head of Department

The 2013 Abdus Salam Prize for Graduate Students

15 January 2014

The 2013 Abdus Salam Prize for Graduate Students has been awarded to Alexander Gaunt in AMOP for his report on his paper "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atoms in a Uniform Potential" (Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 200406 (2013). Alex will give the Abdus Salam talk at the Cavendish Graduate Student Conference on Friday December 6th...

Bulletproof nuclei? Stem cells exhibit unusual absorption property.

Phase Transiting to a New Quantum Universe

Cavendish PhD student wins SET for Britain Silver Medal for Physics

Smart Glass - Could antireflective self-cleaning windows increase the efficiency of solar cells?

Suchitra Sebastian and Google's Solve for X

Resolving the mystery of what happens inside batteries

CavMag 11 focussing on Women in the Cavendish

ERC awards grants to Cavendish Academics

The Institute of Physics 2013 Young Medal and prize awarded to Professor Jeremy Baumberg FRS

The 2013 Abdus Salam Prize for Graduate Students

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