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Learn more about Meditation-Relaxation Therapy here: https://bit.ly/MeditationRelaxationTherapy Sleep paralysis, being paralysed upon falling asleep or awakening, affects about 1 in 5 people globally. @DrBalandJalal has experienced it since he was a teenager and has spent roughly a decade trying to work out the science behind this mysterious phenomenon and how best to avoid its potentially

Learn more here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/third-thumb How easily could you get to grips with a third thumb? The Plasticity Lab at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (@MRCCBU) tested Dani Clode's robotic Third Thumb device @royalsociety Summer Exhibition and showed that the public found it surprisingly easy. Testing technology on a diverse range of people is essential for ensuring new

Thomas Robert Malthus, who was born 250 years ago, became notorious for his ‘principle of population’. He argued that, because poverty was inevitable, some people would not find a seat at ‘nature’s table’ and would perish. In a new book, historians at Cambridge and Harvard set the life and work of this contentious thinker within a wider context – and look in particular at his

Holocaust sites are in urgent need of care and protection. We risk losing them to climate change, decay, destruction in conflict, a lack of funding, the rise of extreme politics and more. To help save them, archaeologist and researcher Dr Gilly Carr and The Safeguarding Sites project are developing a heritage charter to safeguard all Holocaust sites in Europe in the 21st century. Part of that

Dozens of Cambridge University undergraduates come from care backgrounds and/or are estranged from their families, like Lily-Rose and Connall. Both met through the Realise Project, which aims to encourage more young people from similar backgrounds to go to University. They say the following schemes were incredibly useful in allowing them to focus on their studies: Realise Project-

Cambridge rowing has a new home – this £5million boathouse opened on Saturday and will house three of the University’s best known boat clubs, including those due to face Oxford in the Boat Race next April. The squads will undergo months of training here throughout the winter in preparation for those Races, which will be watched by more than 6m people around the world. With state of the art

In this final film of the trilogy, we return to find out what has happened to the Christian and Muslim men and women we first met in HMPYOI Feltham and HMPYOI Styal now that they are no longer in prison. We hear about some of the struggles they have faced since release from prison. We consider the role that faith communities have played in their journeys out of prison, and think about whether it

Our #IndiaUnboxed series continues with the puzzling story of the fiery meteorites which were cold to the touch. 157 years ago the people of Dharamsala in Northwest India watched as three meteorites streaked across the sky and crashed into the ground nearby. Despite witnessing nine-foot flames trailing behind the meteorites, the brave locals who rushed to pick them up found them to be intensely

Content warning: this film contains images of blood and surgery For people with organ failure, transplantation is the only option. A lack of suitable organs for transplantation means patients die every day. Researchers in the University’s Department of Surgery are using large animal models to understand why donated organs become damaged and unsuitable for transplantation, and to test promising

“It’s not a zero-sum game at all... governments will have to do both.” Professor Dame Diane Coyle outlines the need for levelling up as well as generating growth to improve people’s lives. ️ What is at stake for the UK General Election? In this new video series, students and academics from the University of Cambridge share their insights on some of the biggest themes facing our country

Postdocs are the driving force behind much of the cutting-edge research that takes place at Cambridge. They are the fastest growing and most diverse staff group, and with increasing numbers they face huge challenges both professionally and personally. Providing better support for these young people, who are imperative to the University’s work, is the primary role of the Office of Postdoctoral

Questions from people watching on the livestream to be submitted on Slido at https://app.sli.do/event/z6e8pner Climate change is fundamentally an ethical issue. Its effects touch everyone and failure to take action will cause widespread and devastating harm. But, some of the proposed actions may themselves have damaging and destructive impacts on the poorest and most vulnerable societies, who

After long negotiations, on 19 February Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the European Council had agreed a new settlement for the United Kingdom in the European Union. In line with the Conservative Party manifesto, this agreement has triggered a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union to be held on Thursday 23 June. In this video, Catherine Barnard summarises

There have been several recent egregious examples of private prosecutions, including the case of the Post Office prosecuting numerous Postmasters for losses caused by a faulty IT system. Professor John Spencer discusses these cases, the evolution of the system of private prosecutions, and the considerations involved in regulating such actions. Professor Spencer is Professor Emeritus of Law and

The idiosyncratic diaries of one man’s voyage from Liverpool to India in 1842, and the exquisite painted souvenirs he bought there, are among the treasures in the archives at the Centre of South Asian Studies. Entitled The Sea-Pie, the pair of diaries are inscribed to the author Charles Augustus Whitehouse’s mother, and come with the message scrawled across the front “Here it comes

How can we maintain good mental health? Lord Simon Woolley, George the Poet and Professor Jason Arday will be in conversation with counsellor, Rotimi Akinsete, to discuss how to maintain good mental health. Black men are twice as likely to be sectioned as their White counterparts, and are also less likely to reach out for support if they encounter mental health struggles. The aim of Black Men on

After long negotiations, on 19 February Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the European Council had agreed a new settlement for the United Kingdom in the European Union. In line with the Conservative Party manifesto, this agreement has triggered a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union to be held on Thursday 23 June. In this video, Catherine Barnard examines

AFRICAN PLANT SCIENTISTS DEVELOP NEW SKILLS IN CAMBRIDGE TO TACKLE PROBLEMS AT HOME Researchers and students gathered at the Sainsbury Laboratory on Tuesday 4 April for the inaugural African Diaspora Biotech Summit. Among the participants were 17 postgraduate students and academics from six African countries who had earlier taken part in the Molecular Laboratory Training Workshop, held in

Meet Professor Debbie Prentice: the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge "It gives me great pleasure to introduce myself as the University of Cambridge’s new Vice-Chancellor. I am excited to be taking on this new role at a critical moment for all of us. I am a psychologist with an interest in social norms. I have spent most of my academic career at Princeton, including the last

In the early hours of 24 June 2016, the result of the UK referendum on EU membership was announced. By a narrow but clear majority the vote was to leave the European Union. This result has begun a chain of seismic political consequences in the UK and the EU, and will have widespread implications for the law and constitution in the UK. In this video, Mark Elliott assess the immediate impact of the