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Looking to join a new sports team this year? Not only does the Cambridge University Handball Club have space for experienced players and beginners, it also has room for fans who play musical instruments. #Handball #Sport #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge

Andrea Lee, Head of the Strategic Analysis team at the Department for Communities and Local Government, shares her experience of being a CSaP Policy Fellow and the ways new methodologies in research can be leveraged in government.

The Acting Vice-Chancellor, Dr Anthony Freeling, marked the start of the new academic year this morning by giving his annual address to the University in the Senate House.

Artist's impression of 55 Cancri e orbiting its parent star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The most detailed map of a small, rocky ‘super Earth’ to date reveals a planet almost completely covered by lava, with a molten ‘hot’ side and solid ‘cool’ side. Read more: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/map-of-rocky-exoplanet-reveals-a-lava-world

Built by undergraduates working for their exams, with funds raised by the students themselves, Cambridge's solar car is the only British entry into the World Solar Challenge. Despite the odds, however, its radical design could still secure victory. - See more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/resolution-ready-to-shine-down-under#sthash.J5JFhIVd.dpuf

The first in a new range of powerful superconductors which could revolutionise the production of machines like hospital MRI scanners and protect the national grid have been developed by engineers at the University of Cambridge. Professor David Cardwell explains what superconductors are, why we need them, and how he and his team have devised techniques to make them more powerful than ever before.

Last episode, we talked about how we got to where we are now with climate change, but do we even know what’s going on with climate change right now? In this episode we’ll talk about what tipping points we’re approaching, how and why we’re still struggling to gain momentum toward action on climate change, and what difference it would make if carbon dioxide was a brown smelly substance. To

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered a novel genetic cause of severe obesity which, although relatively rare, demonstrates for the first time that genes can reduce basal metabolic rate -- how the body burns calories. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/novel-genetic-mutations-cause-low-metabolic-rate-and-obesity

Why do you get a fountain? We have shown that, to get a fountain, when a link of the next link of chain from the is pulled into motion by the tension in the chain above it, it must also be pushed into motion by the pot. The existence of this new force will require us to re-examine some very old ideas about energy loss and chain pickup. We made an explanatory video

Want to learn how to row but worried about falling into the River Cam? Well Downing College's rowing tank maybe a good place to work on your technique before getting into an actual boat. The tank officially opens on Saturday 21st April. For more information visit their website: http://www.cambridgerowingtank.co.uk