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BBC Pandemic

App-based citizen science experiment could help researchers predict future pandemics

27 Sep 2017

A new app gives UK residents the chance to get involved in an ambitious, ground-breaking science experiment that could save lives.

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New type of supercomputer could be based on 鈥榤agic dust鈥 combination of light and matter

25 Sep 2017

A team of researchers from the UK and Russia have successfully demonstrated that a type of 鈥榤agic dust鈥 which combines light and matter can be used...

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Stephen Hawking

Cambridge celebrates Stephen Hawking鈥檚 75th birthday

03 Jul 2017

Some of the biggest names in science took part in a special public event yesterday (2 July) to celebrate the life and work of Stephen Hawking, on the...

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Lost in high-dimensional space: Study improves the cure for the 鈥淐urse Of Dimensionality鈥

13 Oct 2016

Researchers have developed a new method for making effective calculations in 鈥渉igh-dimensional space鈥 鈥 and proved its worth by using it to solve a...

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Faculty launches new teaching resources for sixth-form mathematics

11 Jul 2016

Underground Mathematics is the culmination of a five-year project funded by the Government鈥檚 Department for Education and delivered by Cambridge鈥檚...

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Surgeon

Parent-led tool opens up NHS children's heart surgery data to families

21 Jun 2016

Transparency without accessibility is not enough: stats must be put in context, say researchers.

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Srinivasa Ramanujan (middle) with fellow scientists at Cambridge.

Opinion: 探花直播man who taught infinity: how GH Hardy tamed Srinivasa Ramanujan鈥檚 genius

22 Apr 2016

B茅la Bollob谩s (Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) discusses the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan and the influence of his tutor...

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H E I N Z

Ketchup and traffic jams: the maths of soft matter

03 Nov 2015

探花直播class of materials known as soft matter 鈥 which includes everything from mayonnaise to molten plastic 鈥 is the subject of the inaugural lecture...

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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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Adult Volvox spheroid containing multiple embryos

Upside down and inside out

27 Apr 2015

Researchers have captured the first 3D video of a living algal embryo turning itself inside out, from a sphere to a mushroom shape and back again...

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Map of the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009.  探花直播size of the dots is relative to city size, and the colours relate to the number of influenza cases, with green the lowest and purple the highest.

New analysis of 'swine flu' pandemic conflicts with accepted views on how diseases spread

01 Jul 2014

New analysis of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in the US shows that the pandemic wave was surprisingly slow, and that its spread was likely...

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Does economics need less maths or more?

11 Apr 2014

Has mathematics become too complex and too dominant a force in modern economics? Yes, says Cambridge Judge Business School鈥檚 Michael Kitson; no, says...

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