Discovery could pave the way for quantum computing
17 March 2010Two experimental systems at the forefront of modern physics research - a single trapped ion and a quantum atomic gas - have been combined for...
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Two experimental systems at the forefront of modern physics research - a single trapped ion and a quantum atomic gas - have been combined for...
Focussing too much on the present and not using past experience to make decisions could be linked to suicide in elderly depressed adults, researchers from...
A team of scientists from Cambridge and Sweden have discovered a molecule that can prevent a toxic protein involved Alzheimer's disease from building up in...
Mother birds communicate with their developing chicks before they even hatch by leaving them messages in the egg, new research by a team from the...
The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of species on Earth, was caused by an asteroid colliding with Earth...
A new multidisciplinary research programme aims to develop a single vaccine that will combat four major respiratory pathogens of pigs.
A recent study by a Cambridge researcher has uncovered the startling way in which young girls view and feel about their bodies.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory have uncovered flaws in the Chip and PIN system that allow criminals to use stolen credit and...
A Cambridge PhD student is swapping the comforts of city life for a small hammock in the jungle while he studies orang-utans in Borneo for...
Seeing someone perform a virtuous deed, especially if they are helping another person, makes us feel good, according to a recent study by psychological scientists.