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Image taken in stratosphere using Android phone, from previous CUSF project 鈥楽quirrel 3鈥 which used smartphone to pilot high-altitude balloon

Your chance to 鈥榮cream in space鈥 using smartphone technology

25 Oct 2012

Cambridge students will be loading human screams onto a smartphone that will be blasted into outer space later this year. 探花直播public are invited to...

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 探花直播galaxy NGC 4151. Researchers were able to use this galaxy to accumulate data about flares coming from a mysterious X-ray source close to the giant black hole at its centre.

鈥淓cho鈥 of light augurs new era in study of black holes

31 May 2012

A long-sought 鈥渆cho鈥 of light that promises to reveal more about supersized black holes in distant galaxies has been identified by an international...

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Gaia Deployable Sunshield Assembly

Twinkle, twinkle, little star: I鈥檓 going to know what you are

26 Apr 2012

A team of astronomers at the 探花直播 of Cambridge is taking the next big step in a European-wide programme which will lead to the creation of the...

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Predeployed nowatermark

High Speed at the Edge of Space

30 Jun 2011

Cambridge students have tested a parachute capable of safely landing a probe on Mars.

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Dalek

EX-TRA-PO-LATE! Moral philosophy and the Daleks

19 Apr 2011

They鈥檝e had viewers cowering behind the sofa since 鈥楧octor Who鈥 began 鈥 but what exactly is it that makes people so frightened of the Daleks? A new...

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