From Pulp to Fiction: our love affair with paper

17 March 2016

It may seem strange to describe paper as technology, but its arrival in England in about 1300 was a pivotal moment in cultural history. That story is being pieced together for the first time in a new project that also promises to reveal much about why some innovations succeed where others fail

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Coal Fired Power Station (cropped)

探花直播 of Cambridge at the World Economic Forum 2016

15 January 2016

探花直播Vice Chancellor of the 探花直播 of Cambridge is to lead a delegation of academics to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, in January 2016, to explore issues including carbon reduction technologies and how science and engineering can best address society's greatest challenges.

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One of several letters Crook sent from his prison camp, Stalag Luft VIII-B

Christmas Letters from a Second World War prison camp

22 December 2015

Moving letters sent by the academic John Crook while he was a prisoner at the notorious聽Stalag聽Luft聽VIII-B camp in World War II reveal his indomitable spirit and brave resolve to remain positive for the sake of loved ones back home.

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