At CORDE's #AtomScattering and #AtomMicroscopy Facility, we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible✨ Using helium atom scattering the researchers can carry out ultra-sensitive structural and dynamic analysis of 2D materials and surfaces. 🔗 Find out more: corde.phy.cam.ac.uk/characterisa...

🌐 We’re live! Cambridge’s Collaborative R&D Environment (CORDE) is here to connect ideas, people, and scientific innovation. Follow us for updates on how CORDE can support your research and open doors to new ideas and discoveries💡 corde.phy.cam.ac.uk #CORDE #Innovation #CambridgeResearch

The 40th edition of #PhysicsAtWork welcomed more than 2,000 students at the Ray Dolby Centre to explore the many different careers that a Physics degree can open up. From #robotics to forensic science to an inspiring talk on the #JWST, the event was packed with hands-on science. ℹ️ buff.ly/T5hSB4S

Calling all prospective PhD applicants! 🗓 Date: 7th October | ⏰ Time: 3–5 PM Join us for a special lab visit and get an inside look at our research and collaborative working environment. Interested in attending? Please complete the form by 22 September. buff.ly/uBGwquE

Molecules never sit still – always vibrating, twisting, stretching. Researchers at the Cavendish have shown that inside #plasmonic nanogaps (tiny cavities of trapped light), they start moving in sync – like tuning forks beating together. buff.ly/ddTFKaF #NanoPhotonics

Earlier this afternoon we also had an interesting discussion with world-leading physicists Prof Mark Thomson, Prof Jocelyn Monroe, Prof Graziano Venanzoni and Dr Saskia Charity about the intriguing complexities of #particlephysics @oxfordphysics.bsky.social @cambridgephysics.bsky.social

📢 Join us in Cambridge for the 17th European Conference on Molecular Electronics (ECME 2025) at the Ray Dolby Centre, 22-26 September. Speakers include Henry Snaith, Alberto Salleo, Sahika Inal, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Paul Blom and Stuart Parkin. 👉Find out more and register: buff.ly/HHQ84NU

👏 Congratulations to Dr Bo Peng & Dr Gunnar Felix Lange for winning the inaugural Psi-k CECI Award at #PsiK2025 in Lausanne! Their project on New concepts of topology from theory to modelling and applications won the award. 🏆 buff.ly/UIte0S6

Is there room for subjectivity and artistic freedom in science? Our latest episode of #PeopleDoingPhysics explores how creativity influences scientific discovery with Cavendish Art Science Fellow Akeelah Bertram and physicist Kevin Lim. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts or👇🧵

Recent research at the Cavendish Laboratory, in collaboration with the University of Bath, has shown that whether a droplet of liquid sticks or bounces depends on its speed and size, rather than solely on how water-repellent the surface is. Article link: buff.ly/GljhsjJ

Happy 11th birthday, Isaac ! This week marks 11 years since the first question was attempted on @isaacphysics.org, now know as Isaac Science. Take a look back at Isaac's staggering stats over the years: isaacscience.org/isaac_11 Will you try Isaac's toughtest question, 'Cooling Excalibur'?

🌟 Surfaces, Interfaces & Thin Films Day 2025 🌟 16 Sept 2025 | Durham University A free one-day event bringing together researchers, students and industry to explore the latest in thin films, surfaces and interfaces. An event delivered by CORDE Academy. Register now 👉 buff.ly/yKI0ebV

Our very own Lisa Jardine-Wright spoke today on BBC Radio 4 about challenges in physics education. She called for more support for physics teaching while also noting rising interest in A-level physics vital for the UK economy. Listen at 42 min. in. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Reaching #NetZero means rethinking how we generate, store & use energy. 🌍 At the Cavendish, Siân Dutton’s group is creating new materials for energy-efficient computing, generation, transmission and storage—driving the transition to a greener future. buff.ly/pEI41uL

Cavendish Photography Competition 2025! Theme: The Next 150 Years of Physics at Cavendish Submit your photos or videos by 22 September 2025 Open to all Cavendish staff & students More info: buff.ly/6ADFMgj Image: The nano-garden of a scientist by Hio-leng Un

Exciting panel discussion uncovering the hidden world of particle physics at the British Science Festival next month!

Day 3 of #STEMSMART Residential at the Ray Dolby Centre is complete! 435 STEM SMARTies have already answered 22,000+ maths & physics questions, and taken part in taster sessions and practicals in 8 Cambridge departments. One more day to go! buff.ly/sjEkkRw @isaacphysics

📰 Explore the new Cavendish Museum with its curator Harry Cliff in the latest edition of CavMag, our alumni magazine. Nested in the Ray Dolby Centre, the Museum showcases some of the Cavendish's most iconic instruments. Follow the guide 👉 buff.ly/tHSpqthttps:...

28 participants, 4 days, 1 goal: mastering X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy! 🚀 The #XPS Summer School 2025 program, organised with Royce at Cambridge and delivered by CORDE Academy, mixed theory, hands-on workshops & networking. Check out other upcoming training events: buff.ly/0hDzD17

New study by Dr. Fei Zheng at Keyser Lab reveals how #DNA behaves as it passes through nanoscale pores, highlighting the “hidden” plectonemes with potential to reshape #biosensing. 👉 buff.ly/NQip1bJ Image: Torsion-Driven Plectoneme Formation. Credit: Fei Zheng

Dr. Harry Cliff caught up with Prof. Mark Thomson, soon-to-be Director-General of #CERN, during his recent visit to the Ray Dolby Centre in Cambridge. In this interview, Prof. Thomson discusses his priorities as the incoming Director-General and more. buff.ly/EpxMizD

In this blog, Cavendish alumnus Dr Nigel Allsopp shares a personal reflection on his time as a PhD student in the #RadioAstronomy Group (1975–78). From icy cycling mishaps, conversation with Professor Sir Martin Ryle and more. 📖 Read the full story: buff.ly/pG5DyPP

Researchers from the Semiconductor Physics Group have demonstrated a new way to control radiation in the terahertz range—an often-overlooked part of the electromagnetic spectrum—with unprecedented dynamic range and speed. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/AxFI4CS

🎉 Cavendish Photography Competition 2025 Theme: "The Next 150 Years of Physics at Cavendish" 📸 Submit your photos or videos by 12 September 2025 🏆 Exciting prizes, including a Special Prize for AI-generated image/video! buff.ly/dP6LOqb Open to all staff and students.

Over 80 teachers came together at the Isaac Physics Teacher Symposium at the Ray Dolby Centre last month! This two-day event was all about boosting confidence, building community, and sharing practical tools to make physics teaching easier and more impactful. www.ogdentrust.com/about-us/new...

Researchers have discovered a new carbon-based molecule that links light and electron spin—simpler, cheaper, and more flexible than current materials. This could transform #quantumsensing. buff.ly/NVHPdE2 The research was supported by the European Research Council (ERC).

How do you detect something that doesn’t interact with light? 💡 In 1932, James Chadwick answered that question—discovering the #neutron and reshaping physics. PhD student Ella Wood tells the story in this video: buff.ly/kTNWgok #CambridgePhysics150

🎉 A wonderful celebration marking 70 years of the Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) group at the Ray Dolby Centre last Friday! The anniversary event brought together #TCM alumni, researchers, and staff for an inspiring afternoon of talks, memories, and future-facing discussions.

"The future will belong to those who can ask the best questions." AI could change the way we advance human knowledge and reshape research at institutions like Cambridge. Researchers here are pushing the maths of AI to get into the core of the data and break it down. 👉 www.cam.ac.uk/stories/camb...

As we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Theory of Condensed Matter group on 25 July, Emeritus Professor Volker Heine FRS takes us back to its early days at the Cavendish Laboratory when it was the "Solid State Theory" group. 📖 Read his reflections: buff.ly/o6kSwc3

New #PeopleDoingPhysics episode. Explore what it means to be alive from a physicist’s view. This month, @teutapilizota.bsky.social discusses how studying tiny cells leads to major insights and the role of uncertainty in discovery. 🎧 Listen now👉 people-doing-physics.captivate.fm/episode/the-...

Join our special speaker; Professor Vikram Jayaram remotely or in-person at the Department of Material Science in August. Professor Vikram from the Indian Institute of Science will be discussing the developments of the century-old technique of bending creep. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/royce-talk...

👏 Congratulations to our Astrophysics PhD students Ignas Juodžbalis and Dávid Puskás for winning the MNRAS Student Prize 2025. Their papers were recognised as two of the best published in the journal by student scientists this year. 🏆 Read their reactions to the prizes👉 buff.ly/B14KwkF

Originally from Poland, Łukasz Domański told us about his experience of relocating from London to Catz to pursue a PhD in Physics, which is fully funded thanks to the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship Programme: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/... @cam.ac.uk @cambridgephysics.bsky.social‬

#CosmoCube is an exciting new mission led by Cavendish astrophysicists to unlock the secrets of the ‘Cosmic Dawn’ 🌇👇

A new study by Cavendish researchers demonstrates that quantum particles can be precisely shuttled across a system, even amid strong disorder. This finding could shape the next generation of future noise-resistant quantum technologies. 🔗 www.phy.cam.ac.uk/news/quasipe...

The Undergraduate Open Days are underway! We're incredibly proud to welcome hundreds of future students in our (their!) new home the Ray Dolby Centre, and to give them a taste of the excitement of studying physics at Cambridge. Join us again tomorrow for more! #CambridgePhysics

#CambridgeOpenDays |10 & 11 July 2025 |Ray Dolby Centre 1:30 - 4:30pm Thinking about studying Physics at Cambridge? Come & explore the #NaturalSciences course that lets you keep your options open— just like Ella Wood, who is now doing research within the #HighEnergyPhysics group.

Cavendish researchers, in collaboration with UC San Diego, have received funding to demonstrate quantum entanglement in molecules. The project aims to explore molecular quantum behaviour for room-temperature quantum sensors in biomedicine, leading to new fundamental discoveries. 🔗 buff.ly/dWVv830

Thinking of studying Physics at Cambridge? Visit us at the Ray Dolby Centre during #CambridgeOpenDays, 10–11 July 2025, 1:30–4:30pm. Register: buff.ly/JWsEgA4 General information stands can also be found at the Student Services Centre, 9:30-4:30pm on both days.

🎉 Congratulations to the Cantabrigians — a Cambridge-based team of researchers from the Cavendish Laboratory and the Institute of Astronomy — for topping the SKA Observatory’s global Science Data Challenge, outperforming 30 teams worldwide! Details: sdc3.skao.int/overview Result: buff.ly/V2kwgy8

📢 We're delighted to announce Nicola Marzari as the next Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge. Following in the footsteps of Maxwell, Rutherford and most recently Friend, Nicola will take up the role in September. Full announcement at: www.phy.cam.ac.uk/news/next-ca...

In this blog, Cavendish alumnus Prof. Lionel Clarke OBE reflects on his time at the Cavendish, between 1974 and 1981. His story is a vivid snapshot of what it was like to work in two vastly different research groups at the Cavendish 2. 👉 buff.ly/tmkGFMx

Just one week after the neutron was discovered, two pioneering minds at the Cavendish Laboratory, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, became the first to split an atom using a man-made particle accelerator and ushering in the era of subatomic physics. buff.ly/sdyt47n #CambridgePhysics150

We are saddened to hear the passing of Sir Francis Graham-Smith FRS. A pioneering radio astronomer, Graham was central to Cambridge’s early post-war advances in the field. We send our sincere condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew him. buff.ly/dkGeM5J

Congratulations to Richard Friend, who has received a prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant (@erc.europa.eu)🎉 The BRIGHTS project will create materials with luminescent properties and quantum spin behavior, potentially transforming quantum science and optical technologies. #ERCAdG

🚨 Astrophysicists along with other researchers at the Cavendish have found a way to uncover the masses of the universe’s first stars by studying a specific radio signal from hydrogen atoms (filling the gaps between star-forming regions) just 100 million years after the Big Bang. buff.ly/W4gfdlJ

The Day 2 of the Cavendish Science Festival is in full swing, marking the grand finale of our 150th anniversary year! Visitors have been exploring thought-provoking talks, panel discussions, guided tours of the RDC, and more. More information: buff.ly/icE3Amr

Our fourth-year students are showcasing their research at the first-ever Part III Projects Conference at the Ray Dolby Centre today. This event kicks off our Cavendish Science Festival, running until Friday, and concludes our 150th anniversary celebrations! #CambridgePhysics150

A new study by researchers at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Manchester has achieved a major advance in quantum materials, developing a method to precisely engineer single quantum defects in diamond—an essential step toward scalable buff.ly/q7PVq8N #quantumtechnologies.