Rachel Thomas

Observing the smallest building blocks of matter doesn't involve seeing in the ordinary sense.

Cambridge researchers, the BBC, and thousands of citizen scientists have created a revolutionary infectious disease data set.

Cambridge mathematicians and physicists remember their most famous colleague with fondness.

Robert Langlands wins for his "visionary program".

How Heron of Alexandria missed his chance to explore the unknown mathematical land of complex numbers.

Take part in an exciting new project and help fight future pandemics!

Find out what gravitational waves will tell us about the Universe: from understanding its birth to figuring out whether black holes have hairs.

Find out about the heroic effort that led to the detection of gravitational waves and the excitement of their discovery.

Here we present a worked example of a distributed system in action, to illustrate Leslie Lamport's rules of ordering history using logical clocks.

Leslie Lamport explains how he used logical clocks to set history straight in distributed systems.

Leslie Lamport explains how an understanding of special relativity helped him realise how to order events in computer science, and enabled the development of distributed computing.