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Welcome to the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics @cambridgeuniversity - at the forefront of experimental physics for over 150 years.
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⏳ Discover the Science of Time!
Join us for a special livestream of the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture 2026, featuring Professor Jim Al-Khalili exploring the mysteries of time! 🔬
📅 Tuesday, 8 December
🕕 6:00–8:30 PM
📍 Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge
Enjoy exciting demonstrations and activities led by Cavendish Public Physicist Dr Harry Cliff!
Everyone is welcome, including families and children of all ages!
🎟️ Book your tickets now! Link in bio.
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Where to watch the other Christmas Lectures in Cambridge
The Sainsbury Laboratory is hosting Lecture 2 on Thursday 10th December 2026.
The Museum of Technology in Cambridge is hosting Lecture 2 (Thursday 10 December 2026) and Lecture 3 (Saturday 12 December 2026).
Link in bio for more details.
@sainsbury.laboratory.cambridge @ri_science
01 Jan 1970
A fascinating glimpse into the world of liquid crystals, where tiny changes in molecular orientation create extraordinary patterns visible on a much larger scale!
📸 In ‘Small Made Big’, a striking image captured through a polarised optical microscope reveals the crystalline phase of some liquid crystal mesogens, showcasing how molecular organisation and nanoscale interactions produce intricate visual patterns. Changes in molecular alignment across these phases influence how light passes through the material, a principle behind everyday technologies such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs).
🏆 This submission earned Izzy Sargent, a third-year Natural Sciences undergraduate student at Cambridge, Second Prize in this year’s photography competition, celebrating the theme ‘Big and Small’.
With interests in condensed matter physics and biophysics, Izzy captured this image during a first-year summer research project investigating how the electrohydrodynamic properties of liquid crystals could be used to develop tuneable diffraction gratings.
👏 Congratulations, Izzy!
@izzyyyyyyyyy_s
04 Nov 2026
Have you ever heard of a zeptometre? It's a trillionth of a billionth of a metre, billions of times smaller than a single atom ⚛️
A Cambridge-led team of physicists from @CambridgePhysics, working at @CERN, have detected an ultra-rare decay of a subatomic particle called a beauty quark, a process which occurs in just one in ten billion beauty quarks.
The way these tiny particles decay could help us understand what new physics might exist at the zeptometre scale.
This strange world, dubbed the zeptoverse, could also be hiding the secrets of dark matter, or help us understand how matter came into being during the Big Bang.
Find out more through the link in @CambridgeUniversity's bio 🔗
#CambridgeUniversity #CambridgeResearch #Physics #DarkMatter
03 Nov 2026
🌍🔭 EAT-TART: Training the next generation of Radio Astronomers in East Africa.
Earlier this week, the University of Cambridge and the Kenya Space Agency, alongside international research partners, joined forces to strengthen radio astronomy research and human capital development across East Africa through the East African Research and Training with the Transient Array Radio Telescope (EAT-TART) project.
Supported by the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund, EAT-TART equipped approximately 20 young researchers with hands-on experience using the open-source Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART).
Professor Eloy de Lera Acedo from Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory served as Principal Investigator, providing scientific leadership and delivering specialist lectures as part of this collaborative initiative.
✨ Fostering long-term scientific collaborations, building skills and inspiring future discoveries!
@eloydelera
30 Oct 2026
A fascinating glimpse into the microscopic world of bacteria, where individual cells and their interactions create extraordinary patterns!
📸 In the first image, ‘Bacterial Art in Bloom’, glowing magenta “swimmers” and green “builders” interact to form a thriving bacterial community, producing intricate three-dimensional patterns.
👉 Swipe to see the second image!
‘A Division of Microscopic Labor’ reveals how different bacterial populations take on distinct roles, creating striking ring-like structures as the colony develops.
🏆 Both submissions earned Abhirup Mookherjee, a postdoctoral researcher from the Fusco Lab at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, this year’s Head of Department Prize.
At the Cavendish Laboratory, Abhirup applies quantitative microbiology to elucidate how bacterial phenotypic plasticity governs biofilm resilience through biophysical mechanisms.
👏 Congratulations, Abhirup!
Acknowledgements: Physics of Medicine and Fusco Lab
29 Oct 2026
📸 Quantum gas microscopes can take remarkable snapshots of individual atoms. But they only tell half the story.
Taking inspiration from the phase-contrast microscope in classical optics, researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory and TU Dortmund University have proposed adapting quantum gas microscopes so they can capture where individual atoms are and how they are moving in a single image, opening new ways to explore quantum matter.
🔗 Link in Bio to read the full story
Image: An artistic impression of the proposed scheme. Atoms in an initial state (left-hand panel) pass through a first matter-wave lens, which sorts them by their momentum (central panel). This information is written into an additional degree of freedom; measuring it together with position after the second lens gives a final image that records a snapshot in phase space (right-hand panel). Credit: Nigel Cooper.
01 Jan 1970
The winners of the Cavendish Photography Competition 2026 have been announced! 📸
This year’s theme was ‘Big and Small: exploring the breadth of Physics at the Cavendish’.
✨ First up, meet our First Prize winner, Zofia Dziekan, a PhD student in NanoPhotonics.
Her winning image, ‘Winter Wonderland’, reveals intricate, fractal-like patterns formed by gold nanoparticles and molecular linkers, captured using scanning electron microscopy.
Zofia’s research explores how tiny gold particles can be carefully brought together using molecular linkers to create materials with unique optical properties. These materials could help improve the sensitivity of sensors, enabling them to detect even smaller changes in their surroundings.
Congratulations, Zofia! 👏
21 Oct 2026
🔬Vibrating material organises itself into a single beat
A team of UK and Dutch physicists, including Anton Souslov from the Cavendish Laboratory, have demonstrated how a material made of interacting robotic units can organise its movement into a single, shared rhythm.
Published in Nature, the research demonstrates how tiny robots synchronise their vibrations through a process called wave coarsening.
This finding paves the way for versatile, biology-inspired robots that behave more like living systems.
@asouslov
🔗 Read the full story via the link in bio
01 Jan 1970
We're delighted to see three Cavendish researchers honoured in the 2026 @institute_of_physics awards, which celebrate outstanding people, organisations and achievements across physics.
Professor Sarah Bohndiek is the recipient of the 2026 IOP Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize for pioneering the use of light and sound in early disease detection, with a focus on clinical translation and equitable healthcare outcomes.
Professor Russell Cowburn FRS received the 2026 IOP Katharine Burr Blodgett Medal and Prize, which honours outstanding and sustained contributions to physics in business.
Professor Akshay Rao has been awarded the 2026 IOP James Joule Medal and Prize, which recognises distinguished contributions to applied physics that solve technological challenges.
Huge congratulations to them! 👏
#IOPAwards26
12 Oct 2026
Join us for Cavendish Professor Nicola Marzari's ‘inaugural’ talk on Wednesday 14 October, 4.15pm at the Ray Dolby Centre.
The talk, ‘Materials from First Principles: From Pseudogaps to Autonomous Discovery’, is part of the Cavendish Quantum Colloquium series.
Free and open to all. Read the abstract and find out more via the link in bio.
01 Jan 1970
Are you a UK state-school Year 12 student studying A-levels or an equivalent in Maths alongside Further Maths, Biology, Physics, Chemistry or Computer Science? ⚛️
Our STEM SMART programme by Isaac Science can give you a taste of what it's like to study a maths, science or engineering degree at a highly competitive university.
🚨 Applications close 31 October. To apply, tap the link in @cambridgeuniversity's bio 🔗
#STEMSMART #STEM #ALevels #Year12 #Year13 #Oxbridge
07 Oct 2026
Michaelmas 2026 is here. ⚛️
🏅 Geoffrey Hinton: Nobel Laureate in Physics for AI.
Maxwell Talk, Mon 2 Nov 18:30
📖 Carlo Rovelli: author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.
Maxwell Talk, Wed 28 Oct
🧬 Julia Yeomans: soft condensed matter & biological physics.
Thu 15 Oct
Plus more talks, a pub quiz, a careers fair and a lab tour. Full term card above, and the link to join is in our bio.
Thanks to our sponsors Jane Street, @dfine.consulting, Tpp and @institute_of_physics
#CambridgePhysics #CUPS #Physics #Cambridge #GeoffreyHinton #CarloRovelli
02 Oct 2026
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