How sperm swim near surfaces

How sperm swim near surfaces

08 January 2013

Using high-speed microscopic imaging, Professor Raymond Goldstein's group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics has demonstrated how the interactions of microbes such...

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Algal cell swimming towards a wall

Microswimmers hit the wall

07 January 2013

New research reveals what happens when swimming cells such as spermatozoa and algae hit a solid wall, and has implications for applications in diagnostics and...

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Globe c. 1907

The world inside a Spanish globe

28 December 2012

Study of a mysterious 100-year-old interactive toy – perhaps the Wikipedia of its day – is painting a vivid picture of Spain’s path into the...

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Xmas eve on Gjoa, 1903, taken from Roald Amundsen's book The North West  Passage, vol.1

Having a Polar Christmas

25 December 2012

With Christmas upon us, Cambridge historian Dr Shane McCorristine and geographer and psychologist Dr Jane S.P. Mocellin take us back to the heroic age of...

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Researchers at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Modelling, Evolution and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases

Cambridge researchers support the WHO

20 December 2012

A newly designated Collaborating Centre at the University of Cambridge will support the World Health Organization (WHO) in detecting and responding to major epidemic- and...

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