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Marlowe: a year-long celebration of a brilliant playwright and poet

An ambitious programme, celebrating the birth of poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe 450 years ago, will begin later this month with a rare performance of his early work Dido, Queen of Carthage from 12 to 16 November. A final gala performance will take place in the Senate House.

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Future internet aims to sever links with servers

A revolutionary new architecture aims to make the internet more “social” by eliminating the need to connect to servers and enabling all content to be shared more efficiently.

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Quantum ‘sealed envelope’ system enables “perfectly secure” information storage

Breakthrough guarantees “unconditional” security of information by harnessing quantum theory and relativity, and has been successfully demonstrated on a global scale for the first time.

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Imaging study shows dopamine dysfunction is not the main cause of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Research suggests that the main cause of the disorder may lie instead in structural differences in the grey matter in the brain.

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Putting our House in order

With the Houses of Parliament requiring costly renovation, new research suggests we may have something to learn from plans in the 1730s to rebuild the Palace of Westminster.

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‘but we have a time when de soft rain come’

This evening will see the launch of a new book - Teaching Caribbean Poetry - written for English teachers. The book is the latest outcome of an ambitious collaboration between the University of the West Indies and the University of Cambridge.

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Buildings for books: the complete story of the library

13 November 2013

For 20 years architectural historian Dr James Campbell waited for someone to write a definitive book about libraries.

‘Light skin’ gene mirrors socio-cultural boundaries in Indian population

13 November 2013

Latest research shows that the presence of the genetic mutation for lighter skin - found in “almost 100%” of Europeans - broadly conforms to many cultural and linguistic differences, as well as anc...

Scrubbing up: preparing hospitals for climate change

13 November 2013

Innovative designs for retrofitting the vast NHS estate to stem rising carbon emissions and adapt hospitals to perform through a changing climate are being created through a multi-university collab...

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Marlowe: a year-long celebration of a brilliant playwright and poet

Future internet aims to sever links with servers

Quantum ‘sealed envelope’ system enables “perfectly secure” information storage

Imaging study shows dopamine dysfunction is not the main cause of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Putting our House in order

‘but we have a time when de soft rain come’

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