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The '60 Second Impressions' are a series of one-minute films featuring current Cambridge undergraduate students. These students talk about what it's really like to study at Cambridge, live in a College, and take part in a wide range of extra-curricular activities. Jasmine is from High Wycombe, and is studying Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES). In her 60 Second Impression, she talks about

This film is one of the outputs from a major EPSRC-funded research project undertaken by Cambridge, Loughborough, Leeds and the Open universities. The project investigated thermal conditions in a representative sample of NHS hospital buildings dating from the 1930s to the present, and, on the basis of this work, predicted their future performance through to 2080. Having diagnosed these buildings'

You might think that today image is more important than ever. From photo filters, to selfies, to celebrities on Instagram, what do our images say about us? Mary Beard meets model and influencer, Sasha Pallari who campaigns against filters and their promotion of a beauty ideal - Mary even tries one on for size! But making choices about our image is nothing new. Classicist and art historian, Carrie

By chemically sampling the atmospheres of two dead stars in the Hyades cluster 150 light years away, researchers at Cambridge and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the building blocks for Earth-sized planets formed around the stars while they lived. The study offers insight into what will happen in our solar system when our Sun burns out 5 billion years from now. This animation is an

This optical microscopy image shows the drying and cracking of a film formed when an aklyl ketene dimer (AKD) dispersion is deposited and dried on a glass microscope slide. AKD is a waxy material that is commonly used in industry to treat paper and reduce its water absorbance. This can improve the quality of inkjet printing by reducing the spread of ink drops. As part of an on-going European

Find out about the importance of interdisciplinary research at Cambridge and the lively network of cross-School initiatives at the University. Postgraduate students, early-career researchers and researchers new to the University in particular may not be aware of the range of opportunities for interdisciplinary networking and collaboration. There are a number of interdisciplinary initiatives such

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

A presentation by Professor Lawrence Sherman, Wolfson Professor of Criminology, Director of the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Director, Police Executive Programme. Repeated experiments show that focused policing reduces crime. Yet research shows that prison increases offenders' crime rates, especially after they are sent to prison for the first

The placenta is the interface between the mother and her baby, which means it is not only key to a successful pregnancy, it determines the future health of every one of us. In this film Professor Graham Burton discusses how the Trophoblast Centre was established to generate a fresh approach into placental research. The Centre focuses on common complications during pregnancy that have their roots

You might think that today image is more important than ever. From photo filters, to selfies, to celebrities on Instagram, what do our images say about us? Mary Beard meets model and influencer, Sasha Pallari who campaigns against filters and their promotion of a beauty ideal - Mary even tries one on for size! But making choices about our image is nothing new. Classicist and art historian, Carrie