Articles about 'Department of Physics'

Taking their cue from the building blocks of life, Cambridge chemists are assembling polymers that move.

Cambridge’s new NanoPhotonics Centre is creating novel properties of light and matter at the nanoscale.

A new initiative funded by the Carbon Trust hopes to make solar power an affordable choice for homeowners within 10 years.

Cambridge researchers have analysed millions of patterns of potential moves to model the uncertainty of play in the ancient game of Go.

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’.

Looking deep inside the swirling dust clouds that make up stellar nurseries – the birth place of stars – can help unravel mysteries of the birth and evolution of galaxies like our own.

Four collaborative research projects at the University of Cambridge have been awarded funding in the first round of awards from the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI).

The University of Cambridge is to form one third of a new £6 million research collaboration looking at quantum physics.

Two Cambridge students have collected prizes at the UK’s most important awards ceremony for science and engineering undergraduates.