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9 Feb 2024: Kapla workshops are a wonderful way for children to discover their creativity and building skills. Join us in one of our workshops, facilitated by Jennier Norie of KAPLA UK, to have a go for yourselves.

9 May 2024: Faculty of Classics. 2:00pm-4:00pm on Sunday 24 March. East Barnwell Community Centre.

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: 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: An opportunity to see some treasures from the Whipple Library rare book collection, featuring some of the earliest Western scientific books, works by Darwin, Galileo, Newton and more, and (possibly) the smallest scientific book ever printed… This

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: 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: 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 May 2024: Faculty of Classics. 2:00pm-4:00pm on Sunday 24 March. East Barnwell Community Centre.

9 Feb 2024: "Seeing is Believing? The Secrets of Visual Illusions Unveiled" is a journey into the mesmerizing world of optical illusions, specially designed for young, inquisitive minds.

9 Feb 2024: You are sure to have a blast creating and launching your own mini rocket! You will also be able to learn about aerodynamics and find out about some of the advances in technology that have improved lives in Cambridge and around the world.

9 Feb 2024: The SunSpaceArt team will be running ‘drop-in’ workshops for children during the family weekend (23–24 March 2024) at the Cambridge Festival.

9 Feb 2024: The award-winning Meta Lab uses emerging digital technology in innovative ways to create transformational educational experiences. Come and meet Lab Director, Dr Chris Macdonald, and experience a pioneering VR Public Speaking project.

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: In this event, participants and families who are interested will be invited to test their knowledge about sustainable solutions to climate change by entering into our Sustainability Quest (which can be done autonomously).

9 Feb 2024: Tuberculosis is a deadly enemy. This centuries old disease has killed more people than any other disease in history. But is it still a problem today? The human immune system is a skilled opponent. So how does tuberculosis attack and how does the

9 Feb 2024: The Quiet Time at our Family weekend is perfect for people who want to experience the festival, in a quieter environment. Join Cambridge Festival for a free weekend of talks, workshops and hands-on activities for the whole family!

9 Feb 2024: The periodic table brings order to the 118 known elements.

9 Feb 2024: Come and see us during the family weekend and take part in our exciting hands-on activities, to spark your imagination.

9 Feb 2024: Join us for an interactive and educational experience that explores the science of how we form habits and its implications for both humans and animals.

9 Feb 2024: Come along to see how technology allows us, by generating energy, to overcome ‘gravity’ – children will be able to make their own LED torches to take away! Also, find out how energy is stored to allow a model train or cars to move for a given

9 Feb 2024: Have you ever wondered about where we get our medicines from? Then come join us at the Exam rooms for a fascinating journey into the world of Pharmacology!

9 Feb 2024: Does science disprove God? Can the Bible be true if it doesn’t mention dinosaurs? Could robots or aliens be religious? What really makes me ‘me’? Asking big questions like these, and many others, is an exciting part of being human.

9 Feb 2024: Imagine a future that’s teeming with life and guided by nature! Join the Imaginarium Takeover for a weekend of stories, ideas, creativity and hands-on activities as we ask “What Would Nature Do?” to build a greener, fairer and more connected

9 Feb 2024: Women in religious communities have typically been seen as victims of patriarchy. This panel brings together scholars who have carried out research with women in religious movements and communities connected to Islam, Judaism and Christianity, to

9 Feb 2024: The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare health inequalities between different social groups in society. This session will explore the meaning, measurement and causes of health inequalities, including those associated with the pandemic.

9 Feb 2024: Join us for an interactive and educational experience that explores the science of clutter and messy bedrooms. Do you have a drawer full of junk in your house? Learn how we can be more organised and explore some of the reasons why we don’t like to

9 Feb 2024: Sunday 24 March programme. Sit-down talks with local history researchers from 2pm, followed by cakes and conversations to continue the community sharing of records, artefacts and memories.

9 Feb 2024: It’s the holy grail of our age – tackling the mental health crisis in children and young people. Our charity, The William Templeton Foundation for Young People’s Mental Health (YPMH) is committed to revolutionising the current landscape to

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: Activities are aimed at children and young adults (aged 5+) but all ages will enjoy interacting with our neuroscience researchers. First, 'All about the brain'. Play our animal matching game to learn fun facts about different types of brains.

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 range of hands-on activities

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: Join Dr Jo for a fun and informative, interactive show as we journey around the human body, discovering wonders of biology along the way.

9 Feb 2024: Most diseases start in childhood, but most health research is carried out in adults.

9 May 2024: 2:00pm-4:00pm on Sunday 24 March. East Barnwell Community Centre. 10:00am-6:00pm daily from Wednesday 13 March until Wednesday 20 March.

9 Feb 2024: How do you wash hands correctly to help prevent the spread of infectious microbes? What do bacteria look like? Find out by looking at them through a microscope. Use craft materials to build your own microbes to learn about the structure of bacteria

9 Feb 2024: Join the enchanting Romani storyteller, renowned author and toymaker Richard O’Neill, often dubbed the “Romani Hans Christian Anderson”. Prepare to be captivated as he weaves his spellbinding tales, offering a delightful array of original and

9 Feb 2024: Come and join us for a chat and an ice cream with some rare flavours that may not be around much longer. What can we do to take action? How can we contribute to solve the climate crisis? Can we find solutions so we do not have to shout Ice Cream!

9 Feb 2024: In the Bubble Superstars Show, we'll be exploring bubbles of different sizes and investigating their shapes and colours too. The show is specially designed for very young children and children with special needs, so everyone can join in making

9 May 2024: Search site. Events. Search found 124 items. (-) Remove Health filter Health. Search. 10:00am-6:00pm daily from Wednesday 13 March until Wednesday 20 March. Grand Arcade Centre. All day from Thursday 14 March until Thursday 28 March. online. 6:30pm-8

9 Feb 2024: When we interact others, our brains seem to synchronise in their activity. Greater levels of synchrony often suggests better social interactions and coordination. How does the brain achieve this? How do we measure this? And can neural synchrony

9 Feb 2024: Get hands-on with scientists from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute to learn about the work they are doing as part of our mission for 3 in 4 people to survive cancer by 2034.

9 Feb 2024: The history of science is full of amazing stories of discovery and invention, but there are also darker stories to be told.

9 Feb 2024: Join Cambridge Festival for a free weekend of talks, workshops and hands-on activities for the whole family! From Amazing Animals to Romani storytelling, from bubble science to virtual reality; this is a weekend full of ideas to spark your curiosity

9 Feb 2024: University Biomedical Services implements the 3Rs –Replacement, Reduction and Refinement – to ensure humane and ethical procedures are applied in scientific animal research.

9 Feb 2024: Dive into the pre-frontal cortex for an off-balance, fun, emotive dance exploration of the three modes of emotional regulation: threat, drive, soothe. Award-winning Infusion Physical Theatre looks at adrenaline, dopamine and oxytocin in a multimedia

9 May 2024: Search. 10:00am-2:00pm on Saturday 23 March. Department of Engineering. 2:00pm-4:00pm on Sunday 24 March.

9 Feb 2024: Have you ever wondered how doctors calculate your heart health? Did you know researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit can predict if you are likely to get heart disease in the next 10 years?