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9 Feb 2024: Play our game of statistics, skill and luck, and find out if you are truly better at throwing than your friend, or are you just lucky? Or try our bespoke board game to find out how Dr Marble will find out the best treatment to give to patients.

9 Feb 2024: Our amazing immune system protects us from pesky pathogens. Join the Altenburg/Boyle Lab to learn all about viruses and how our immune system fights them! Play germ hide & seek to discover how our immune system helps seek out pathogens that are

9 Feb 2024: Many of us are worried about our memory as we get older, and whether we might develop dementia. But what makes up our memory, and how does it change as we get older? How can we look after our brain health? And what can be done if we are worried

9 Feb 2024: In "Roads to Sustain", you'll embark on an exciting journey as road planners, where you'll learn to balance the art of road design with a keen focus on sustainability.

9 Feb 2024: Through sensory science programmes, Dr Erica Tandori works with researchers to create tactile artworks that educate and engage on pathology, and are designed for the blind and low-vision community.

9 Feb 2024: Explore the history of science through the Whipple Museum’s collection of instruments, models and pictures. Use the handling boxes in the learning gallery to explore the human body, light and shadows, and a range of other scientific concepts.

9 Feb 2024: Activities are aimed at children and young adults (aged 5+) but all ages will enjoy interacting with our neuroscience researchers. First, 'All about the brain'. Play our animal matching game to learn fun facts about different types of brains.

9 Feb 2024: The electro//acoustic day will bring together both classical instrumental, vocal repertoire and cutting-edge electronic music inviting the audience to explore diverse performances and listening modalities. It will encourage non-traditional modes of

9 Feb 2024: Throughout the animal kingdom, creatures great and small have developed amazing abilities. In this interactive show, Braintastic! Science (https://www.braintasticscience.com) will challenge you to complete tasks that have been used in real life to

9 Feb 2024: Prepare to get your hands dirty and transform into a mini scientist. During this interactive workshop, you’ll have the chance to get creative with some easy science experiments, and also learn how to do some of them at home. Age group: 3+ years.

9 Feb 2024: The Department of Pathology will be showcasing a collection of pathology-inspired artworks created by local primary school students who were visited earlier in the year by PhD student researchers.

9 Feb 2024: Robert Chapman is a neurodivergent philosopher, writing on neurodiversity theory, madness and disability. They have taught at King’s College London, the University of Bristol, Sheffield Hallam and Durham University, where they are currently an

9 Feb 2024: Join The Herd for early years free play in a room filled with possibilities - explore, touch, build, imagine, play. We’re transforming a part of Cambridge Festival into a pop-up playground filled with recycled materials. Every item in the space

9 Feb 2024: In this workshop led by Kemal Sultanov, we will trace the ‘genesis’ of a literary text from its earliest drafts through to its publication (and beyond), by examining the authors’ preparatory notebooks, drafts produced at various stages of

9 Feb 2024: Drop in and explore the world of materials science through our table-top displays and interactive activities.

9 Feb 2024: Join Professors Clare Bryant, Brian Ferguson, Drs Cruz and Jha to discuss how vaccines work and what they will look like in the future.

9 Feb 2024: This is the culminating (spring) event of the AHRC-funded ‘Seasons of Sanctuary’ project. It will be of interest to gardeners, readers, historians and art lovers.

9 Feb 2024: As regional conflicts spread, this panel discussion of experts will consider the big question of how wars end from a historical, political and cultural point of view.

9 Feb 2024: Do join us for a beautiful Choral Evensong service at Great St Mary’s, the University Church. A special address will be given by keynote speaker the Revd Canon Jim Walters entitled Sacred texts or international agreements: Which will save us from

9 Feb 2024: Time of Your Life is a hands-on activity for all ages that will demonstrate the pervasive influence of our body clock in our day-to-day life and how the clock works at the cellular level; it will also demonstrate the daily variability in measurable