Squeezing more from light: coupling nanoscience and photonics
01 September 2008Cambridge’s new NanoPhotonics Centre is creating novel properties of light and matter at the nanoscale.
Next-generation medical implants
01 September 2008At the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials, a highly interdisciplinary approach is meeting the challenge of bioengineering new materials for the human body.
Atomic yoga: the new physics of flexibility
01 September 2008A UK-wide collaboration led by the Department of Earth Sciences is uncovering the counterintuitive properties of flexible materials.
Materials on the horizon
01 September 2008Professor Lindsay Greer, Head of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, highlights the vital role of materials research in meeting many of today’s challenges.
Lean machines: environmentally friendly engines
01 September 2008An industrial-grade aerospace gas turbine combustion simulator – the first of its kind in the UK and one of only a dozen worldwide – is...
‘Super’ superalloys: hotter, stronger, for even longer
01 September 2008Only a single class of engineering materials can withstand the extreme conditions deep within a jet aeroplane engine – the nickel-base superalloys.
Montaigne moves to Cambridge
01 September 2008A magnificent new collection at the University Library makes Cambridge a major international centre for Montaigne scholarship.
Widening participation in higher education
01 September 2008New research could help improve the learning experience of students from backgrounds where there is little tradition of higher education.
Re-interpreting Greece and Rome at The Fitzwilliam Museum
01 September 2008Recent funding will enable collaboration between classicists and museum curators, and shape a major re-display of Greek and Roman art and archaeology.
Weaving a web of world history
01 September 2008For five researchers embarking on the project ‘Civilizations in Contact’, finding the links between each of their specialist fields will provide unique insight into pre-modern...