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̽»¨Ö±²¥application of new ideas, discoveries and inventions contributes to society and the economy nationally and globally.

Generations

Health costs of ageing will shoot up without technological innovation

14 Jul 2015

New report urges government and designers to work together to break down the barriers to innovation in order to adapt to an ageing population.

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Brainstorms at INDEX: Views

Six degrees of innovation

08 Jul 2015

New report identifies six successful business models to guide companies.

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Flying snowy owl

Silent flights: How owls could help make wind turbines and planes quieter

22 Jun 2015

A newly-designed material, which mimics the wing structure of owls, could help make wind turbines, computer fans and even planes much quieter. Early...

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Cambridge's Chemistry of Health programme awarded £17 million in funding

25 Mar 2015

New funding will support fundamental research into the molecular processes underlying human disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases...

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Graphene flowers

̽»¨Ö±²¥European roadmap for graphene science and technology

24 Feb 2015

Europe's Graphene Flagship lays out a science and technology roadmap, targeting research areas designed to take graphene and related two-dimensional...

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Financiación colectiva (cropped)

European alternative finance market could top €7 billion in 2015

23 Feb 2015

̽»¨Ö±²¥European alternative finance market - which includes crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending and invoice trading - reached €3 billion last year and...

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Elderly hands

Cambridge Drug Discovery Institute to fast-track development of new treatments for dementia

16 Feb 2015

Alzheimer’s Research UK, the world’s largest dedicated dementia research charity, has announced a £30 million Drug Discovery Alliance, launching...

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Eve, the Robot Scientist

Artificially-intelligent Robot Scientist ‘Eve’ could boost search for new drugs

04 Feb 2015

Eve, an artificially-intelligent ‘robot scientist’ could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society...

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A lipid membrane functionalised with DNA-linkers

Responsive material could be the ‘golden ticket’ of sensing

07 Jan 2015

A new responsive material ‘glued’ together with short strands of DNA, and capable of translating thermal and chemical signals into visible physical...

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Demonstrator aircraft

Watts up - aeroplanes go hybrid-electric

23 Dec 2014

An aircraft with a parallel hybrid engine – the first ever to be able to recharge its batteries in flight – has been successfully tested in the UK...

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First of new generation of cancer drugs granted European approval

18 Dec 2014

A new drug for ovarian cancer, developed by researchers at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge and AstraZeneca, has today become the first of new class of...

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Active matrix electrophoretic display incorporating graphene

First graphene-based flexible display produced

05 Sep 2014

A flexible display incorporating graphene in its pixels’ electronics has been successfully demonstrated by the Cambridge Graphene Centre and Plastic...

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