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The conviction of Oscar Pistorius for committing culpable homicide in relation to the shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp made worldwide news. In this video Professor Christopher Forsyth reflects on his previous comments (see https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/news/2015/01/law-focus-mental-element-murder-reflections-pistorius-case-christopher-forsyth) about the original conviction, and

The variant hunters are helping us to understand how and why the COVID-19 virus is spreading, allowing us to fight back against the COVID-19 pandemic. Hear from some of the scientists behind the UK’s nationwide sequencing effort to track SARS-CoV-2. Sir Patrick Vallance (the government’s Chief Scientific Adviser) also describes how the expertise that came together during the pandemic is now

Professor Didier Queloz hunts for extreme worlds and Earth twins in Cambridge’s Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics. Here, he tells of the moment in 1995 when he became the first to discover a planet that orbits a star other than our Sun. Astronomers had speculated as to the existence of these distant worlds – called exoplanets – but, until the discovery of 51 Pegasi b by Queloz

Why can humans alone invent? In this talk, based on his new book, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen will put forward a bold new theory: because we can identify patterns, specifically if-and-then patterns. And he argues that the genes for this unique ability overlap with the genes for autism. Go to www.slido.com and enter code 43439 to chat about the event. From the

Cambridge University Library is celebrating its 600th anniversary with an exhibition of priceless treasures communicating 4,000 years of human thought. To celebrate, we have made six films on the six distinct themes featured in Lines of Thought. The third film in the series looks at the translation of some of the Library’s most important religious texts. Translation has always been central to

The new CUSU committee have now taken up their new posts ahead of the 2018/19 term. Before the hand over they enjoyed mixing with their predecessors at the CUSU Garden Party at Sidney Sussex College.

Meet Zoe: a digital talking head which can express human emotions on demand with “unprecedented realism” and could herald a new era of human-computer interaction. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/face-of-the-future-rears-its-head

A message for new beginnings from Ecclesiastes 7:8-12 in the Hebrew Bible. Read by Srecko Koralija of the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge Cambridge. See a digitised copy of this 500-year-old manuscript in Cambridge University Library: http://bit.ly/HebrewBibleBeginningsMessage

In his first year Computer Science undergrad Zeb Goriely has made it to 88 lectures, taken lots of photographs and learnt how to cook. But most importantly he's made new friends in a new home. Check out Zeb's own YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuv8dDEiIkHlMZ0kQg62a7Q/featured

Each New Year brings new diets and health fads; carnivore, keto, paleo, plant-based. But what actually works? Dr Giles Yeo explores how to break the cycle of pseudo-science and misinformation surrounding the world of dieting as he discusses his ‘anti-diet’ diet book.