Three from Cambridge elected as Fellows of The Royal Academy of Engineering
11 July 2011Fifty new Fellows have been elected members of The Royal Academy of Engineering at its Annual General Meeting on 11 July, a list that includes...
Merck-Serono Prize for Science and Literature and the Christopher Zeeman Medal
07 July 2011John D, Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, DAMTP, and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, has been awarded the 2011 Merck-Serono Prize for Science and...
Wittgenstein’s camera
05 July 2011To mark the 60th anniversary of his death, an exhibition exploring Wittgenstein’s experiments in photography, and how they relate to his philosophy, can be seen...
Predictive modelling of plant growth for food and fuel
04 July 2011Fundamental research on plant development at the Sainsbury Laboratory will help in the future design of optimal crops.
The next generation of computing
04 July 2011Progress in electronics has relied heavily on reducing the size of the transistor to create small, powerful computers. Now spintronics, hailed as the successor to...
Cavendish Emeritus Professor wins Gjønnes Medal
01 July 2011The 2011 Gjønnes Medal in Electron Crystallography will be awarded to Archie Howie (Emeritus Professor, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) and Michael Whelan (Emeritus Professor,...
High Speed at the Edge of Space
30 June 2011Cambridge students have tested a parachute capable of safely landing a probe on Mars.
What shape will universities take in the future?
28 June 2011A conference at CRASSH later this week will address some big and highly topical questions.
How luxury became a four-letter word
27 June 2011A new series presented by Michael Scott examines the history of luxury and the origins of our ambivalent attitude to the finer things in life.
Birds of a feather display only a fraction of possible colours
23 June 2011Research reveals plumages exhibit less than a third of possible colours birds can see.