Articles about 'Department of Physics'

The path from innovation to impact can be long and complex. Here we describe the fascinating story behind the development of a new type of electronic reader.

Nine of the 44 new Royal Society Fellows announced today are Cambridge academics. Their election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society recognises their exceptional contributions to society. As Fellows of the UK's national academy of science, these leaders in the fields of science, engineering and medicine join other famous Cambridge names such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking.

As part of a unique collaborative agreement, the Japanese government has located a new research satellite at The Nanoscience Centre, University of Cambridge.

A new initiative funded by the Carbon Trust hopes to make solar power an affordable choice for homeowners within 10 years.

Pioneering research shines new light on our understanding of the way we see the world. Optical fibres have now been found to exist in vertebrate eyes, channelling light down their length and delivering it without distortion straight to the cells that ‘see’.

The University of Cambridge is to form one third of a new £6 million research collaboration looking at quantum physics.

Two Cambridge students have collected prizes at the UK’s most important awards ceremony for science and engineering undergraduates.