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See Stormzy behind-the-scenes at Cambridge University with students during the launch of the Stormzy Scholarship. For more details on eligibility criteria, follow this link: https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/stormzy-scholarship

Our society is more unequal than ever, as the top 1% control over 44% of the world’s wealth while 689 million people are living on less than $1.90 per day. In this episode, we asked our guests what the future of fairness, justice, and equality should look like, and how their research can help to bring about a fairer society. Alexa Hagerty and Natalie Jones shared how injustice can be thought of

Seventy years after Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, Cambridge University's Churchill Archives Centre has released a short film (free to embed) commemorating the 'forgotten architect' of D-Day. Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay was part of General Eisenhower's inner circle during the months and years of top secret planning that led to Operation Overlord, launched on June 6, 1944. Ramsay

Today, the University of Cambridge is launching a campaign to promote zero tolerance of sexual misconduct. Called ‘Breaking the Silence – Cambridge speaks out against sexual misconduct’, the campaign highlights prevention, support and reporting for those who’ve been affected by sexual misconduct, all of which are available via www.breakingthesilence.cam.ac.uk. CUSU’s women’s officer

What can the naked mole rat teach us about living longer? It turns out – a lot! In this 3-part animated series by Dr Ewan St. John Smith, discover how the weird biology of these amazing creatures could give us insight into treating/preventing cancer and brain damage in humans.

Interviews are an important part of the selection procedure at Cambridge and we try to interview everyone with a realistic chance of being offered a place. Interviewers know you may be nervous and aren't trying to catch you out. They want to see how you work through problems and take on new ideas. Often there aren't right or wrong answers to the questions asked, and the way you arrive at an

James Deutsch directs the Africa Program of the New York based Wildlife Conservation Society, with 1,100 staff implementing conservation work in 20 African countries. James studied philosophy at Harvard and biological anthropology and zoology at Cambridge King's College before holding a research fellowship at Churchill College and a lectureship in conservation biology at Imperial College, London.

These tiny oil droplets may hold a key to a new mechanism that drives the development of shapes and forms in nature, a process known as morphogenesis. When the droplets are slowly frozen, they shift through a range of different shapes. This shape-shifting is driven by a wax-like layer that forms beneath the surface of the droplets, suggesting that complex morphogenesis may be controlled by the

Cambridge graduate Tim Hunkin, inventor of unique seaside amusement machines and much more, will be speaking at the Cambridge Science Festival on 16 March

Lucy Lewis was the UK’s first female bomb disposal officer and this week became the only woman Marshal in the University of Cambridge’s 809-year history. Lucy reveals what it’s been like to make history...again.