拢75 million investment for 探花直播's Cavendish Laboratory

25 November 2015

探花直播Government has announced a 拢75 million investment in the 探花直播 of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory as part of聽Wednesday's Spending Review. This will be matched with a further 拢75 million from the 探花直播 to transform the Cavendish, helping maintain Britain鈥檚 position at the forefront of physical sciences research.

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Venus transits the rising Sun

Mirage maker

30 October 2015

Aditya Sadhanala wanders over to the wall, turns a pulley, and a wooden box about a metre squared swings up and away. Below it gleams an array of carefully positioned lasers, deflectors and sensors surrounding a piece of glass no bigger than a contact lens. He flips a switch and creates a 鈥榤irage鈥.

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Testing Times Ahead

Post-16 education must be reformed to tackle damaging arts-science divide

04 September 2015

Why is it acceptable to say 鈥淚 never could do maths鈥 but not 鈥淚鈥檝e never read any Shakespeare鈥? It鈥檚 symptomatic of the art-science divide that can only be addressed by reforming our education system, writes Professor Athene Donald from the Department of Physics and Master of Churchill College.

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An image from an experiment in the quantum optics laboratory in Cambridge. Laser light was used to excite individual tiny, artificially constructed atoms known as quantum dots, to create 鈥渟queezed鈥 single photons

Scientists "squeeze" light one particle at a time

01 September 2015

A team of scientists have measured a bizarre effect in quantum physics, in which individual particles of light are said to have been 鈥渟queezed鈥 鈥 an achievement which at least one textbook had written off as hopeless.

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Detail of Kingfisher, woodblock printed in colour, Kitagawa Utamaro

Why does the kingfisher have blue feathers?

12 August 2015

罢丑别听Cambridge Animal Alphabet series聽celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, K is for Kingfisher. Look out for them among the swamp cypresses at the Botanic Garden, where the secrets behind their cyan and blue feathers are being studied by an extraordinary collaboration of scientists.

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