From atoms to jet engines – extreme materials on display at summer exhibition
30 June 2015At any one time over half a million people are flying far above our heads in modern aircraft. Their lives depend on the performance of...
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At any one time over half a million people are flying far above our heads in modern aircraft. Their lives depend on the performance of...
A newly-identified species of spike-covered worm with legs, which lived 500 million years ago, was one of the first animals on Earth to develop armour...
An ‘exhausted’ army of immune cells may not be able to fight off infection, but if its soldiers fight too hard they risk damaging the...
New film series Novel Thoughts reveals the reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists and peeks inside the covers of the books that have played a...
The Periodic Table may not sound like a list of ingredients but, for a group of materials scientists, it’s the starting point for designing the...
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, who last year co-authored an appeal to the Pope for moral leadership on climate change, will back his recent encyclical and...
What power can individuals have over their data when their every move online is being tracked? Researchers at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory are building new...
Restoring the low levels of the chemical serotonin may help improve brain function and reduce impulsivity in some dementia patients, according to Cambridge researchers. A...
A new analysis of one of the most bizarre-looking fossils ever discovered has definitively sorted its head from its tail, and turned up a previously...
The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, D is for Dragon. Watch out for fire-breathers among the treasures of the...