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Ed Turner carrying out field work in the forests of Sumatra

What is it really like to work in scientific research today?

12 Dec 2013

A new programme offered by the Institute of Continuing Education will give participants a rare insight into the challenges involved in pushing back...

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Lawrence Bragg, Cambridge circa 1913

How a young Cambridge graduate changed the path of modern science

15 Nov 2012

In 1912 a young graduate working in Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory made a breakthrough that represents the birth of x-ray...

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