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Electrochromic nanoparticle-on-mirror constructs (eNPoMs)

Smallest pixels ever created could light up colour-changing buildings

10 May 2019

The smallest pixels yet created – a million times smaller than those in smartphones, made by trapping particles of light under tiny rocks of gold –...

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Artist’s impression of the full Square Kilometre Array at night

Design work on ‘brain’ of world’s largest radio telescope completed

09 May 2019

An international group of scientists led by the University of Cambridge has finished designing the ‘brain’ of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the...

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Ultra-secure form of virtual money proposed

08 May 2019

A new type of money that allows users to make decisions based on information arriving at different locations and times, and that could also protect...

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A new spin on organic semiconductors

26 Mar 2019

Researchers have found that certain organic semiconducting materials can transport spin faster than they conduct charge, a phenomenon which could...

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World first as Bell Burnell pulsar chart goes on display

08 Mar 2019

Iconic object exhibited for the first time, alongside works by Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University Library.

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Theoretical ESR spectrum buildup as a function of two-photon detuning δ and drive time τ, for a Rabi frequency of Ω = 3.3 MHz on the central transition.

Physicists get thousands of semiconductor nuclei to do ‘quantum dances’ in unison

22 Feb 2019

A team of Cambridge researchers have found a way to control the sea of nuclei in semiconductor quantum dots so they can operate as a quantum memory...

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Quantum leap

06 Feb 2019

Cambridge researchers are devising new methods to keep sensitive information out of the hands of hackers. They launched the UK’s first ‘unhackable’...

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Cambridge receives new funding to support PhD students in science and engineering

04 Feb 2019

The University of Cambridge has received new government and industrial funding to support at least 350 PhD students over the next eight years, via...

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New programme to support academic and industrial links with Greece

04 Feb 2019

A new training and research programme at the University of Cambridge will fund PhD students and early-career researchers as they work to develop...

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‘Magnetic graphene’ switches between insulator and conductor

01 Feb 2019

Researchers have found that certain ultra-thin magnetic materials can switch from insulator to conductor under high pressure, a phenomenon that could...

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Work begins on new home for Cavendish Laboratory

24 Jan 2019

Work on the University of Cambridge’s £300m Cavendish Laboratory redevelopment has been marked with a ground-breaking ceremony attended by the Vice-...

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Image showing light emission from the polymeric nanostructures and schematic of a single nanostructure

Plastic crystals hold key to record-breaking energy transport

24 May 2018

Scientists from the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol have found a way to create plastic semiconductor nanostructures that absorb light and...

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