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Twilight literature

The Twilight Zone?

03 Sep 2010

The effect on the teenage brain of books like Twilight and the Harry Potter series is to be examined at Cambridge University.

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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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Children's Literature

Children's literature comes of age

01 May 2010

A new Centre for Children’s Literature is providing a focus for research on how children are shaped by early encounters with books and film.

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Twilight literature

Researchers get serious about kids’ stuff

03 Feb 2010

A new centre for the study of children's literature, which will analyse material ranging from classics such as Alice In Wonderland to Disney films...

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Perseus alpha x-rays

Royal Astronomical Society announces honours

21 Jan 2010

Cambridge academics have been honoured for their outstanding contribution to astronomy by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).

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Crime Scene

Manchester Police to test Cambridge “pressure points”

12 Jan 2010

Greater Manchester Police are to field test a new Cambridge University initiative to cut crime by focusing police officers on "pressure points" known...

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Rusty C3PO

Robot scientist becomes first machine to discover new scientific knowledge

02 Apr 2009

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Aberystwyth University have created a "robot scientist" which the researchers believe is the first...

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CAPE

Enhancing CAPE-abilities in photonics and electronics

01 Sep 2008

A unique model of industrial-academic partnership is demonstrating how UK R&D can stay ahead of the game in a rapidly moving electronics market...

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Watch amazing footage of how nanotubes form

02 Mar 2007

A Cambridge University-led team of scientists have successfully produced live video footage that shows how carbon nanotubes, more than 10,000 times...

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