Opinion: The remarkable accuracy of the Trinity College clock – and what makes it tick
06 April 2016Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses the history of the Trinity College clock and how it keeps time.
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Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses the history of the Trinity College clock and how it keeps time.
Julian Hargreaves (Centre of Islamic Studies) discusses the forms of discrimination faced by Muslim women in Britain.
Shrinking habitat, increased conflict projected in regions critical to survival of threatened apex predators.
Major epidemics such as the recent Ebola outbreak or the emerging Zika epidemic may be difficult to forecast because of our inability to determine whether...
Death is a part of life for people over 95 years old, who mainly live day-to-day, concludes a rare study of attitudes to death and...
Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses the Wall of Death world record attempt and how a motorcycle can ride around a vertical wall.
Andy Martin (Department of French) discusses the "magic potion" for writing a thriller.
A new University of Cambridge research project is set to shed light on the history of writing in the ancient world, and explore the longlasting relationship between...
Researchers have observed the ‘fingerprint’ of a mysterious new quantum state of matter in a two-dimensional material, in which electrons break apart.
A new method of implementing an ‘unbreakable’ quantum cryptographic system is able to transmit information at rates more than ten times faster than previous attempts.