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cosmic climate change

Astronomers find evidence of cosmic climate change

23 Dec 2010

Evidence of an intense warming period in the Universe’s early history, described as a form of “cosmic climate change”, has been found by an...

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longitude

Longitude project to chart new waters in untold story

12 May 2010

The forgotten story of the British organisation that enabled the development of a system for measuring Longitude, only to disappear from memory after...

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Region mapped by Planck satellite

Probing the Universe: Kavli Institute for Cosmology

01 May 2010

Scientists at Cambridge’s Kavli Institute are studying how the Universe developed after the Big Bang by analysing light emitted up to 13.7 billion...

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Science award boosts physics research at Cambridge

21 Dec 2006

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

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