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The application of new ideas, discoveries and inventions contributes to society and the economy nationally and globally.

Carbon nanotechnology

How carbon cousins shaped warfare and can electrify the future

13 Jun 2014

What links legendarily sharp Damascene swords of the past with flexible electronics and high-performance electrical wiring of the future? They all...

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Synthetic opal

Nanomaterials Up Close: Synthetic opal

13 Jun 2014

In this video we see a synthetic opal, which is made using polystyrene spheres surrounded by even tinier polystyrene spheres around 1,000 times...

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Steel’s inner strength

09 Jun 2014

A long-term collaboration between the University and industry has resulted in a super-strong form of steel, which is now being manufactured in the UK...

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The making of a smart tunnel

09 Jun 2014

Ground-breaking new sensing technologies in the world’s first ‘smart tunnel’ are providing engineers with an inexpensive and efficient method of...

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Body builders: collagen scaffolds

04 Jun 2014

Miniature scaffolds made from collagen – the ‘glue’ that holds our bodies together – are being used to heal damaged joints, and could be used to...

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NICE approves MS drug developed by University of Cambridge researchers

28 May 2014

A new drug based on decades of research at the University of Cambridge has today been approved by the National Institute for Health and Care...

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Functional nerve cells from skin cells

22 May 2014

Research will make the study of diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s easier, and could lead to personalised therapies for a variety of...

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Why the Middle East is fertile ground for business

16 May 2014

Peter Hiscocks is CEO of Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education and teaches innovation management and entrepreneurship, and says...

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Diabetes

Overnight home use of artificial pancreas ‘feasible and beneficial’

22 Apr 2014

Children with type 1 diabetes have been able to use pioneering artificial pancreas technology, developed at the University of Cambridge, for the...

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Fans of devitrite crystals

New use for an old ‘trouble maker’

20 Mar 2014

A ‘trouble maker’ from a bygone method of glass production could find a new use as an optical diffuser in medical laser treatments, communications...

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Demonstration of the Colorimetrix app

Pocket diagnosis

19 Mar 2014

A new app which turns any smartphone into a portable medical diagnostic device could help in the fight against diseases including HIV, tuberculosis...

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Eye to eye

Smart glass

21 Feb 2014

A newly-developed coating could enable buildings to have antireflective self-cleaning windows and could increase the efficiency of solar cells.

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