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Detail from a hybrid three-dimensional heterostructure consisting of graphene, boron nitride and molybdenum disulphide in two dimensional layers.

Changing our material future, layer by layer

20 Dec 2012

Researchers are aiming to develop a new class of materials with remarkable properties using one atom-thick substances such as graphene and other two...

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Drying Patterns of AKD on Glass

Caught on camera: engineering in action

15 Oct 2012

The winning entries of the 2012 Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering, sponsored by Carl Zeiss, provide a stunning visual insight...

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Andy Leonard, Vice President BP Cambridge, with some of the first BP supported Cambridge-MIT exchange students at the launch of the extension of the programme to non-Engineers from Cambridge University.

Cambridge extends MIT exchange partnership

10 Oct 2012

An extension to the University of Cambridge’s exchange programme with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been announced, enabling more...

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Kristen MacAskill at work in Christchurch, New Zealand

Where are they now?

13 Aug 2012

Last month graduates of Cambridge’s MPhil course in Engineering for Sustainable Development (ESD) came back to the Engineering Department from all...

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Medical technology in action

Commercialising medical device innovation

13 Jul 2012

New medical devices take a long time to reach the market – and many never make it. Jon Johnson, a researcher at Cambridge’s Institute for...

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Nuclear

A safer route to a nuclear future?

12 Jun 2012

By using thorium instead of uranium as fuel, nuclear power could be safer and more sustainable, according to new research.

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Tomato

Prize tomato

30 May 2012

A group of students on the University of Cambridge’s MPhil course in Engineering for Sustainable Development has devised a project that will help...

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Air flow across a wing

How wings really work

25 Jan 2012

A 1-minute video released by the University of Cambridge sets the record straight on a much misunderstood concept – how wings lift.

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Neurons, in vitrio colour!

The man with the golden brain

13 Dec 2011

What’s the point of a brain? This fundamental question has led Professor Daniel Wolpert to some remarkable conclusions about how and why the brain...

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Scrap-metal

Six steps to a better material world

30 Nov 2011

Every year we make 10 times our own bodyweight of steel, aluminium, cement, plastics and paper, for every person alive, using a fifth of all the...

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Hugh in the recreated tunnel at Zagan

Recreating ‘The Great Escape’

28 Nov 2011

First it was the Dambusters raid, now Cambridge University’s Dr Hugh Hunt has helped to recreate ‘The Great Escape’ from Germany’s infamous Stalag...

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Endeavour II

'Endeavour' blazes across the Outback

27 Oct 2011

The Cambridge University Solar Car Team (CUER) has completed 2011 Veolia World Solar Challenge.

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