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  探花直播.

Cambridge extends MIT exchange partnership

10 Oct 2012

An extension to the 探花直播 of Cambridge鈥檚 exchange programme with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been announced, enabling more undergraduates to study at 鈥渂oth鈥 Cambridges during their degree.

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Initial ISI-MIP simulation showing the effects on vegetation productivity at the highest emissions scenario (reduction: red to yellow; increase: green to blue)

Modelling impacts of a warming world

03 Oct 2012

A community-driven modelling effort aims to quantify one of the gravest of global uncertainties: the impact of global warming on the world鈥檚 food, health, vegetation and water.

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David Spiegelhalter

Risk and uncertainty

01 Oct 2012

This month, the 探花直播 of Cambridge will be profiling research that addresses risk and uncertainty. To begin, Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, explains why this is a vital field of academic research.

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Surface profile of a spall in a bearing steel

Share and share alike

24 Aug 2012

A new resource launched today by the 探花直播 of Cambridge will help researchers seek out and access high-value equipment across five universities.

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A wave approaches Miyako City from the Heigawa estuary in Iwate Prefecture

Scientists explain scale of Japanese tsunami

24 Aug 2012

Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes under the seabed. Some tsunamis 鈥 including the disaster that hit Japan last year 鈥 are unexpectedly large. Cambridge scientists suggest that their severity is caused by a release of gravitational energy as well as elastic energy.

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Sun's active region loops

New light shed on explosive solar activity

02 Jul 2012

探花直播first images of an upward surge of the Sun鈥檚 gases into quiescent coronal loops have been identified by an international team of scientists. 探花直播discovery is one more step towards understanding the origins of extreme space storms, which can destroy satellite communications and damage power grids on Earth.

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