Large Hadron 鈥榠nsider鈥

14 June 2013

In a recent talk for TEDx, theoretical physicist Professor Ben Allanach explored the research he undertook during the two years he spent working on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. Here, he takes us back to his time as one of the scientists working on the biggest scientific experiment in human history.聽

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Max Born

Born identity revealed in newly-opened archive

07 October 2011

A Nobel Prize Medal, a postcard from Einstein and a Hitler-stamped letter of expulsion are among a fascinating archive of documents and other material belonging to Max Born 鈥 one of the fathers of quantum mechanics 鈥 being opened by Cambridge 探花直播鈥檚 Churchill Archives Centre.

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Circuit board

探花直播next generation of computing

04 July 2011

Progress in electronics has relied heavily on reducing the size of the transistor to create small, powerful computers. Now spintronics, hailed as the successor to the transistor, looks set to transform the field.

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