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From microscopic cells to massive galaxies, imaging is a core tool for many research fields today, and it’s also the basis of a surge in recent technical developments – some of which are being pioneered in Cambridge.

The super-resolution revolution

27 Feb 2015

Cambridge scientists are part of a resolution revolution. Building powerful instruments that shatter the physical limits of optical microscopy, they...

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An abdominal tumour (outlined in white) 'feeding on' carbon-13-labelled glucose (orange) provides a means of testing when cancer drugs are effective enough to affect the health of the tumour

Watching the death throes of tumours

25 Feb 2015

A clinical trial due to begin later this year will see scientists observing close up, in real time – and in patients – how tumours respond to new...

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Illuminating art’s history

19 Feb 2015

Scientific imaging techniques are uncovering secrets locked in medieval illuminated manuscripts – including those of a thrifty duke.

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“You’ve got a friend in me” Bringing designers and animators together

17 Feb 2015

Aircraft designers and animators use different digital technologies to achieve the same goal: creating a three-dimensional image that can be...

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CT Scan

New CT imaging facility reveals 'internal secrets'

15 Feb 2015

A new imaging facility offers researchers in Cambridge and beyond the chance to see what lies within objects, without breaking them open.

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Airborne mapping of the tree canopy in a tropical West African forest

If you go down to the woods today…

10 Feb 2015

Recent advances in medical imaging are being applied to airborne remote sensing of vegetation, enabling conservation scientists to see the wood and...

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The view from the top of the stands of Lee Valley VeloPark, London.

Sports calibrated

06 Feb 2015

New methods of gathering quantitative data from video – whether shot on a mobile phone or an ultra-high definition camera – may change the way that...

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Polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Planck reveals first stars were born late

05 Feb 2015

New maps from the Planck satellite uncover the ‘polarised’ light from the early Universe across the entire sky, revealing that the first stars formed...

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Celestial bodies

04 Feb 2015

Astronomy and oncology do not make obvious bedfellows, but the search for new stars and galaxies has surprising similarities with the search for...

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Imaging: interpreting the seen and discovering the unseen

02 Feb 2015

From visualising microscopic cells to massive galaxies, imaging is a core tool for many disciplines, and it’s also the basis of a surge in recent...

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The Esquel pallasite from the Natural History Museum collections, consists of gem-quality crystals of the silicate mineral olivine embedded in a matrix of iron-nickel alloy.

Death of a dynamo – a hard drive from space

21 Jan 2015

Hidden magnetic messages contained within ancient meteorites are providing a unique window into the processes that shaped our solar system, and may...

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Inhaler 1

New imaging method could improve the treatment of the 5 million asthma sufferers in the UK

13 Nov 2014

A new method of observing exactly what happens to drug particles as they travel from an asthma inhaler to the lungs could lead to the development of...

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