Switching ‘spin’ on and off (and up and down) in quantum materials at room temperature
16 Aug 2023Researchers have found a way to control the interaction of light and quantum ‘spin’ in organic semiconductors, that works even at room temperature.
News from the Cavendish Laboratory.
Webb sees carbon-rich dust grains in the first billion years of cosmic time
19 Jul 2023For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains in the early universe.
Early universe crackled with bursts of star formation, Webb Telescope shows
06 Jun 2023Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a partnership between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, is already providing new insights into this question.
Photosynthesis ‘hack’ could lead to new ways of generating renewable energy
22 Mar 2023Researchers have ‘hacked’ the earliest stages of photosynthesis, the natural machine that powers the vast majority of life on Earth, and discovered new ways to extract energy from the process, a finding that could lead to new ways of generating clean fuel and renewable energy.
Humanity’s quest to discover the origins of life in the universe
08 Mar 2023Scientists from the University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago have founded the Origins Federation, which will advance our understanding of the emergence and early evolution of life, and its place in the cosmos.
Discovering 'the secret of life' - 70th anniversary of DNA double helix breakthrough
28 Feb 2023The DNA structure breakthrough at Cambridge has led to world-changing advances in many fields. But the discovery was only possible because of the work of a host of talented scientists.
Here come the girls: getting more women into STEM
10 Feb 2023Ahead of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Professor Dame Athene Donald sat down to speak about her trial blazing career.
Researchers devise a new path toward ‘quantum light’
02 Feb 2023Researchers have theorised a new mechanism to generate high-energy ‘quantum light’, which could be used to investigate new properties of matter at the atomic scale.
Cambridge researchers awarded European Research Council Consolidator Grants
31 Jan 2023Eight researchers from the University of Cambridge have won European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants
Gone fishing: highly accurate test for common respiratory viruses uses DNA as ‘bait’
16 Jan 2023A new test that ‘fishes’ for multiple respiratory viruses at once using single strands of DNA as ‘bait’, and gives highly accurate results in under an hour, has been developed by Cambridge researchers.
