ISSUE 31 - MAY 2024
CAVMAG
In this edition:
BACK TO BLACK
A discovery from the dawn of the universe
And more...
CONTENTS
A very warm welcome to the brand-new digital home of CavMag, your alumni magazine from the Cavendish Laboratory. Malcolm Longair founded this magazine in 2009 and remained at the helm for fifteen wonderful years, publishing 30 editions. It is a great privilege, and somewhat daunting, to be taking on editorial responsibility for this magazine. To mark the start of this new era, the team have refreshed the design of the printed magazine and develop this fresh new way of exploring CavMag online.
Here you will find all the same stories of scientific research, along with recent developments and news from the Cavendish Laboratory in an immersive, interactive, and truly accessible digital environment that looks great whether you’re browsing on a computer, tablet or smartphone.
Harry Cliff and Vanessa Bismuth
RESEARCH FEATURES
COVER STORY
The oldest black hole
An international team led by astronomers at the Cavendish Laboratory have discovered a primeval black hole that existed over 13 billion years ago during the era known as cosmic dawn.
RESEARCH FEATURES
COVER STORY
The oldest black hole
An international team led by astronomers at the Cavendish Laboratory have discovered a primeval black hole that existed over 13 billion years ago during the era known as cosmic dawn.
RESEARCH NEWS
Colossal caverns ready for Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) marked a major milestone in February with the completion of three enormous subterranean caverns that will host the experiment’s far detector.
REACH for cosmic dawn
REACH (the Radio Experiment for the Analysis of Cosmic Hydrogen), is now beginning to probe the times in the early universe known as cosmic dawn.
RESEARCH NEWS
Colossal caverns ready for Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) marked a major milestone in February with the completion of three enormous subterranean caverns that will host the experiment’s far detector.
REACH for cosmic dawn
REACH (the Radio Experiment for the Analysis of Cosmic Hydrogen), is now beginning to probe the times in the early universe known as cosmic dawn.
RESEARCH STORIES
Electrons dance themselves in knots
Researchers at the Cavendish have discovered new realm of ‘topological phases’ with tangled, knot-like properties, which hold promise for new forms of robust memory storage and processing.
Venus’s dark clouds
A team from the Cavendish and the Department of Earth Sciences may have finally solved a hundred-year-old mystery over dark streaks in the atmosphere of Venus.
Resolving electronic gridlock in a Mott insulator
Scientists from the Quantum Matter group have given insights into how electrons go from gridlock to freedom.
INTERVIEWS
Robert Ssempijja: encounters in art and physics
Writing is a medium of communication that represents language through the inscription of signs and symbols.
Peter Doherty: 25 years at Lord’s Bridge
Writing is a medium of communication that represents language through the inscription of signs and symbols.
INTERVIEWS
Robert Ssempijja: encounters in art and physics
Writing is a medium of communication that represents language through the inscription of signs and symbols.
Peter Doherty: 25 years at Lord’s Bridge
Writing is a medium of communication that represents language through the inscription of signs and symbols.
HISTORY:
The Dolby Collection arrives at the Cavendish
The group of objects from the life and work of the American engineer and inventor Ray Dolby, will soon be put on display in the main entrance of the newly constructed Ray Dolby Centre.
HISTORY:
The Dolby Collection arrives at the Cavendish
The group of objects from the life and work of the American engineer and inventor Ray Dolby, will soon be put on display in the main entrance of the newly constructed Ray Dolby Centre.
Cavendish's 150th anniversary: Your memories, please!
Mapping the history of Cambridge innovation
Cavendish's 150th anniversary: Your memories, please!
Mapping the history of Cambridge innovation
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