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Breakthrough study models dying stars in a lab

15 Feb 2013

Researchers have successfully recreated the conditions close to the surface of a white dwarf, allowing them to examine what happens in one of the...

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Image taken in stratosphere using Android phone, from previous CUSF project ‘Squirrel 3’ which used smartphone to pilot high-altitude balloon

Your chance to ‘scream in space’ using smartphone technology

25 Oct 2012

Cambridge students will be loading human screams onto a smartphone that will be blasted into outer space later this year. The public are invited to...

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Poincare

Festival of Ideas explores a 'colossus of physics, philosophy and mathematics'

25 Oct 2012

A University of Cambridge academic is to describe how the insights of a great nineteenth century French mathematician and theoretical physicist...

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Dust ring around the star Fomalhaut taken by ALMA

Opening new windows on the Universe

20 Oct 2012

Advances in telescope technology being developed at Cambridge will drive a revolutionary period of discovery in astronomy.

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The galaxy NGC 4151. Researchers were able to use this galaxy to accumulate data about flares coming from a mysterious X-ray source close to the giant black hole at its centre.

“Echo” of light augurs new era in study of black holes

31 May 2012

A long-sought “echo” of light that promises to reveal more about supersized black holes in distant galaxies has been identified by an international...

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Gaia Deployable Sunshield Assembly

Twinkle, twinkle, little star: I’m going to know what you are

26 Apr 2012

A team of astronomers at the University of Cambridge is taking the next big step in a European-wide programme which will lead to the creation of the...

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Predeployed nowatermark

High Speed at the Edge of Space

30 Jun 2011

Cambridge students have tested a parachute capable of safely landing a probe on Mars.

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Dalek

EX-TRA-PO-LATE! Moral philosophy and the Daleks

19 Apr 2011

They’ve had viewers cowering behind the sofa since ‘Doctor Who’ began – but what exactly is it that makes people so frightened of the Daleks? A new...

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Andromeda

Stellar spirals throw up new clues on galactic evolution

21 Mar 2011

An international team of astronomers have identified a thick stellar disc in the Andromeda galaxy, which will help them to understand more about how...

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Sir Fred Hoyle

The private world of astronomy’s faded star

18 Mar 2011

A huge archive belonging to the astronomer Fred Hoyle, displayed online and at a Cambridge college, sheds new light on one of the most controversial...

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