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9 Feb 2024: Fancy finding out about the latest research on future working and trying out some hands-on activities in the metaverse?

12 Feb 2024: This year we've had a gorgeous PDF programme designed so you can easily find the events you want to attend. You will need to visit the website to book onto those events which require booking but hopefully this is now an easier way to find the things

6 Feb 2024: This year we've had a gorgeous PDF programme designed so you can easily find the events you want to attend. You will need to visit the website to book onto those events which require booking but hopefully this is now an easier way to find the things

9 Feb 2024: The Precious Cells exhibition delves into the artistic, sociological and linguistic aspects of biological research using human tissues, including early human embryos. ... Precious Cells is a digital artwork by artist Anna Dumitriu. Dumitriu delves into

4 Mar 2024: Ever wanted to display your artwork on a punt? We are looking for student artwork relating to the theme of WATER to display on punts on the River Cam as part of Cambridge Festival Creatives. The aim of this exhibition is to see how art interacts

9 Feb 2024: Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road, CB2 1QP. Join us for tea and coffee at the PATH café, and the opportunity to find out more about the research we do in ... Our researchers and students will be keen to chat with you about their research

9 Feb 2024: The second, Dreamy Cops, reflects on the similarities between synthesis and analysis in AI, and on the impact of university research in the development of surveillance technologies (you can see a ... Timing:. In person. Format:. Exhibition. Age:. All Ages

9 Feb 2024: During the Cambridge Festival, students and staff from the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts will be attending a variety of talks, events, workshops and activities.

9 Feb 2024: Educational activity for all ages following the path of food from mouth to bum - join us to explore the mysterious ways our organism processes nutrients. Come and chat to IMS expert scientists about all things food, digestion, brain, obesity,

9 Feb 2024: Drive a nuclear reactor: Simulate driving a nuclear reactor controlled using buttons and screens to understand powering a nuclear reactor.

9 Feb 2024: Come and learn about cells: the building blocks of our bodies! Our bodies contain around 100 trillion cells, which carry out a huge range of important jobs such as making energy from food, communicating messages from one part of the body to another,

9 Feb 2024: Rosa Appignanesi will be running a drop-in creative workshop. People can send in their favourite poems about nature, or even their own work, which will be used to create the ‘pool’ of words.

9 Feb 2024: Can you control a viral disease outbreak? Play the game, have fun and find out more about vaccinations with the Virus Fighter game! In this game, developed by Cambridge scientists and Cambridge school students, players must make decisions to try to

9 Feb 2024: Through sensory science programmes, Dr Erica Tandori works with researchers to create tactile artworks that educate and engage on pathology, and are designed for the blind and low-vision community.

9 Feb 2024: Prepare to get your hands dirty and transform into a mini scientist. During this interactive workshop, you’ll have the chance to get creative with some easy science experiments, and also learn how to do some of them at home. Age group: 3+ years.

9 Feb 2024: Play our game of statistics, skill and luck, and find out if you are truly better at throwing than your friend, or are you just lucky? Or try our bespoke board game to find out how Dr Marble will find out the best treatment to give to patients.

9 Feb 2024: Explore the history of science through the Whipple Museum’s collection of instruments, models and pictures. Use the handling boxes in the learning gallery to explore the human body, light and shadows, and a range of other scientific concepts.

9 Feb 2024: research. Booking email address: comms@path.cam.ac.uk.

9 Feb 2024: Our amazing immune system protects us from pesky pathogens. Join the Altenburg/Boyle Lab to learn all about viruses and how our immune system fights them! Play germ hide & seek to discover how our immune system helps seek out pathogens that are

9 Feb 2024: Drop in and explore the world of materials science through our table-top displays and interactive activities.

9 Feb 2024: Join scientists from the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Organ Donation and Transplantation to find out more about the latest transplant research. ... As well as seeing our research in action, you’ll have the chance to try out our hands-on

9 Feb 2024: Viruses are very small. They are made up of an outer shell of protein that carries the virus’s DNA or RNA – the genetic code containing the instructions for making new copies of the virus. Some viruses have an extra layer around their protein

9 Feb 2024: We know everyone is different, but our immune system is by far the most variable part of our body.

9 Feb 2024: The Precious Cells exhibition delves into the artistic, sociological and linguistic aspects of biological research using human tissues, including.

9 Feb 2024: The Precious Cells exhibition delves into the artistic, sociological and linguistic aspects of biological research using human tissues, including.

9 Feb 2024: The workshop is designed for beginners and is aimed at everyone above the age of 8. Here's a chance to explore a new dance form, Kuchipudi, and learn how to use the body to tell a story. Participants will be made familiar with a brief history of the

9 Feb 2024: Many of us are worried about our memory as we get older, and whether we might develop dementia. But what makes up our memory, and how does it change as we get older? How can we look after our brain health? And what can be done if we are worried

9 Feb 2024: Mitochondria are the powerhouses of our cells. They process our food molecules into ATP – a molecular fuel for the rest of the cell.

9 Feb 2024: Throughout the animal kingdom, creatures great and small have developed amazing abilities. In this interactive show, Braintastic! Science (https://www.braintasticscience.com) will challenge you to complete tasks that have been used in real life to

9 Feb 2024: See some of the latest science-based products from local companies, and win a prize for thinking of the most original ways to use them!

9 Feb 2024: Join us as we celebrate over 10 years of making, inventing and collaboration at Cambridge’s city centre makerspace. This is a chance to tour our workshops and see all kinds of equipment, ranging from 3D printers to the glassworking area.

9 Feb 2024: Are you feeling lucky?’ Beliefs, superstitions and tales about luck are present across all human cultures, according to anthropologists. We are perennially fascinated by luck and by its association with happiness and danger, uncertainty and

9 Feb 2024: This is the culminating (spring) event of the AHRC-funded ‘Seasons of Sanctuary’ project. It will be of interest to gardeners, readers, historians and art lovers.

9 Feb 2024: Throughout the history of science, people have been fascinated by the way vision works and how it can be tricked. Come along and discover how moving images can be created in different ways, how colours combine in unexpected ways and how you can tell

9 Feb 2024: Dr Nord’s research has won many awards including the European Society of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Young Investigator Award, and the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star. ... His predominant research interests involve searching

9 Feb 2024: Join The Herd for early years free play in a room filled with possibilities - explore, touch, build, imagine, play. We’re transforming a part of Cambridge Festival into a pop-up playground filled with recycled materials. Every item in the space

9 Feb 2024: In this workshop led by Kemal Sultanov, we will trace the ‘genesis’ of a literary text from its earliest drafts through to its publication (and beyond), by examining the authors’ preparatory notebooks, drafts produced at various stages of

9 Feb 2024: Researchers from our Rising Stars training course will be popping up throughout the Festival. With subjects from economics, law and children's health, to plants and astrophysics, join us for activities and a chance to chat to our stars of the future!

9 Feb 2024: Time of Your Life is a hands-on activity for all ages that will demonstrate the pervasive influence of our body clock in our day-to-day life and how the clock works at the cellular level; it will also demonstrate the daily variability in measurable

9 Feb 2024: Join researchers from the Department of Genetics for a variety of hands-on activities showing how genetics pops up in our everyday life.

9 Feb 2024: Using a mini microscope connected to your phone or a research microscope from the lab, you will be able to view slides from different brain areas and animals, including sections of

9 Feb 2024: Join us for a presentation in our Business Lounge to explain how carbon-free, ammonia energy can shape the future, followed by a live hydrogen ignition demonstration on the balcony outside the lounge.

9 Feb 2024: Do join us for a beautiful Choral Evensong service at Great St Mary’s, the University Church. A special address will be given by keynote speaker the Revd Canon Jim Walters entitled Sacred texts or international agreements: Which will save us from

9 Feb 2024: Join children’s author Cindy Forde and Dr Irving Huerta, and take a space-time machine to re-imagine our future together. What kind of world do we want to live in? What is the future our hearts know is possible? Have we come together to fight

9 Feb 2024: The Precious Cells exhibition delves into the artistic, sociological and linguistic aspects of biological research using human tissues, including.

9 Feb 2024: The Precious Cells exhibition delves into the artistic, sociological and linguistic aspects of biological research using human tissues, including.

9 Feb 2024: Fun crafts for kids with a Viking twist – come and join us in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic to make some Viking goodies!

9 Feb 2024: Some of the team from the Department of Archaeology, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and the Cambridge Archaeological Unit will be showcasing the variety of research within archaeology, through a

9 Feb 2024: Timing:. In person. Format:. Exhibition. Age:. All Ages. What does new research recently carried out on the library of Sir Thomas Smith (1513–1577), famous humanist and former scholar of Queens’

9 Feb 2024: This year QI’s Head Researcher, James Harkin; Youtube sensation, Holly Gabrielle; Director of Science and Entrepreneurship at the Babraham Research Campus, Kathyrn Chapman; and renowned physicist, Isaac Newton join 2023 ... winners Isabel Thomas