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9 Feb 2024: Writing isn’t just a way of recording and communicating language. From ancient times, it has been used to make a statement visually.

9 Feb 2024: Do you want to make a change in your community? Are you interested in sharing your opinions to help academics develop ground-breaking research? Join this event to find out how Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) academics and members of the public

9 Feb 2024: DNA nanotechnology is used by researchers to build materials and tiny controllable machines. DNA nanotech structures are designed using the same base-pairing mechanism that keeps your DNA together in cells. Join us to learn more about how to design

9 Feb 2024: Philosophers of science (and even scientists) often endorse the continuum picture, that is, they argue that continuity is essential for many accounts of scientific representation, explanation and understanding: this is called the continuum fallacy.

9 Feb 2024: This Movement Workshop is a collaborative multimedia performance project, delving into the ephemerality of disappearing and transforming landscapes.

9 Feb 2024: In this talk, Dr Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, a consumer psychologist at Anglia Ruskin University, will take the audience on an interactive journey exploring why shoppers act, think and behave the way they do. The audience will be shown examples that

9 Feb 2024: Did you know that the Botanic Garden is home to some very weird and wonderful meat-eating plants? Come along to join us as we find out more about these weird plants, including what they eat, how they catch it and where they grow in the wild.

9 Feb 2024: Flint knapping with our Assistant Professor in Palaeolithic Archaeology. A 1 hour flint knapping experience with a palaeolithic archaeologist! Requirements: long sleeves, long trousers and closed toe shoes. This session will be outside.

9 Feb 2024: This workshop will consist of a short history of artefact illustration, followed by an interaction session 'Why do we draw artefacts?, a short demonstration on how to draw pottery and then a one hour practical session.

29 Feb 2024: To mark the launch of an online industrial gazetteer by Cambridge Industrial Archaeology Group, explore the city’s changing railway landscapes.

9 Feb 2024: Join the programmes and institutes of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre in the CAST Building to get hands-on with our ground-breaking science as we tell the full story of the cancer research being undertaken by scientists and clinicians across

9 Feb 2024: Join the University Estates Division’s Senior Grounds Supervisor Mark Jermy on a tour of the ponds and other biodiversity interventions that are taking place on the West Cambridge site. Meet outside the main entrance, West Hub, JJ Thomson Avenue,

9 Feb 2024: THE GAME immerses participants in the world of honeybees that are under attack from a deadly virus. With the help of wearable LED vests and a virtual hive, participants will experience the virtual spread of the virus.

9 Feb 2024: Join Cambridge Festival for a free weekend of talks, workshops and hands-on activities for the whole family! From Amazing Animals to Romani storytelling, from bubble science to virtual reality; this is a weekend full of ideas to spark your curiosity

9 Feb 2024: Calling all young explorers! We invite children aged 4–8 years to embark on an enchanting journey through the pages of two captivating books authored by Professor Adrian Liston: Maya’s Marvellous Medicine, and Battle Robots of the Blood.

9 Feb 2024: Come along on an exciting journey into the world of super-cool vaccines with Dr Mark Howarth. We’re here to tell you about SpyTag, a tiny tool that makes vaccines even better.

9 Feb 2024: A talk and reading that centres on the work of three very different poets: the sixth-century Latin elegist Maximian, the cult Spanish poète maudit Leopoldo María Panero (1948-2014), and the contemporary memoirist Manuel Vilas (born 1962).

9 Feb 2024: Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN have discovered the Higgs boson, the final missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics.

9 Feb 2024: Our health protection team gives advice and guidance on a huge variety of illnesses, bugs and germs that we encounter in our everyday lives, in an attempt to stop the spread of infections and protect the health of the public.

9 Feb 2024: Learn how to crystallise a protein, and look down a microscope to see your crystals growing!

9 Feb 2024: Join textile artist Clare Wilkes (@clareewilkes, www.periodically.blog) to hear about her temperature records in yarn and thread.

9 Feb 2024: Join the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC), colleagues from Darwin and Churchill Colleges and the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR) for games, hands-on activities and experiments to discover how engineers

9 Feb 2024: Re-shaping Landscapes is a collaborative multimedia performance project, delving into the ephemerality of disappearing and transforming landscapes.

9 Feb 2024: Join us as we kick off Sunday with a quiet hour. Come and colour in pictures that illustrate our research themes, design your own optical illusion, or have a go at solving one of our word searches or other puzzles. Why not create some graffiti for

9 Feb 2024: Discover how the Colouring Cities’s international network using open-source code to generate interactive maps that create, store and visualise data on homes, offices, factories, shops and schools in order to improve the lives of city dwellers –

9 Feb 2024: For one night only: join us for an immersive experience at the Museum of Classical Archaeology as artist Ella McCartney transforms our Cast Gallery.

9 Feb 2024: Join us for an open day at the UK’s leading heart and lung hospital, and discover all about what goes into providing world-class heart, lung and sleep care to patients

9 Feb 2024: The Museum of Classical Archaeology is home to more than 450 plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. But why do we have a collection of copies or ‘fakes’? Join Curator Dr Susanne Turner on this tour of the Museum of Classical

9 Feb 2024: Visit the Museum of Zoology after hours for animal-themed board games. Grab a drink, play strategy games, create canine chaos or battle to be the best at Hungry Hungry Hippos.

9 Feb 2024: Researchers from the MRC Toxicology Unit are transforming into (temporary) tattoo artists for our family weekend! Choose a temporary tattoo, and while it’s being applied, talk to the researchers about the unique design and how it relates to their

9 Feb 2024: Join us for an exciting and educational adventure, as we blend fun and learning into a unique game designed for kids! This game will engage children in the fascinating world of microbes that live inside your cells, all while enjoying the beloved

9 Feb 2024: Join us for a unique exhibition of art and design creations that showcase some of the world’s most burning questions in novel and creative ways.

9 Feb 2024: East Anglian Air Ambulance is a charity providing life-saving critical care 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year by air and road across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.

9 Feb 2024: Psychologists Dr Magdalena Zawisza and Dr Craig Owen discuss the fascinating topic of digital consumer and gender bias. This talk will focus on big picture questions such as: How are women and men portrayed on the internet in digital advertisements

9 Feb 2024: ‘Walking with Constable’ is a university-wide research project led by Cambridge Digital Humanities, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the University Digital Library, which has been exploring how we can use digital technologies to take archive material

9 Feb 2024: Calling all curious and budding scientists! Get ready for a fascinating journey into antibody landscapes, which provide a way of showing how the body responds to pathogen variants, from flu to COVID-19. Learn how we use antibody landscapes to choose

9 Feb 2024: With elections due in many countries in 2024, including the UK, a panel of experts - Dr Ella McPherson, Associate Professor of the Sociology of New Media and Digital Technology at the University of Cambridge; Dr Melisa Basol, Research manager at

9 Feb 2024: Commoners Comedy and Custard Comedy are proud to present an evening of comedy to make you think. The second show of the night is Tadiwa Mahlunge: Inhibition Exhibition.

9 Feb 2024: The inequitable distribution of domestic and caring labour in different-sex couples has been a long-standing feminist concern. Some have hoped that having both partners at home during the COVID-19 pandemic would usher in a new era of equitable work

9 Feb 2024: With the NHS and social care on emergency support, this panel - comprised of Professor Mike Kelly, University of Cambridge; Thara Raj Director of Population Health and Inequalities at an NHS Trust in Warrington; Dr Geoff Wong from the University of

9 Feb 2024: Karen Spärck Jones, a Fellow of Wolfson from 2000 until her death in 2007, was a computer scientist whose concepts are considered to be the basis for how the modern internet search engine works.

9 Feb 2024: Come and join us for this one-off amazing live podcast event as part of the Cambridge Festival 2024 – The Live Animal Heartbeat Podcast will be recorded on 26 March at 7.30pm – from the Old Devinity Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, Cambridge

9 Feb 2024: Dive into the pre-frontal cortex for an off-balance, fun, emotive dance exploration of the three modes of emotional regulation: threat, drive, soothe. Award-winning Infusion Physical Theatre looks at adrenaline, dopamine and oxytocin in a multimedia

9 Feb 2024: The award-winning Meta Lab uses emerging digital technology in innovative ways to create transformational educational experiences. Come and meet Lab Director, Dr Chris Macdonald, and experience a pioneering VR Public Speaking project.

9 Feb 2024: You are sure to have a blast creating and launching your own mini rocket! You will also be able to learn about aerodynamics and find out about some of the advances in technology that have improved lives in Cambridge and around the world.

9 Feb 2024: Women’s health researchers from Cambridge Cardiovascular will be available to talk about pre-eclampsia and other complications of pregnancy, highlighting the impact that these conditions can have on women’s cardiovascular health in the longer

9 Feb 2024: Festival favourites The Variables return once more to the Portland Arms and the Cambridge Festival, to show the funny side of science. Join our scientists as they become comedians for an evening, and find out what it’s really like to delve into

9 Feb 2024: Learn how to make music like a DJ with computer code. Find out how robot cars can navigate their way around humans. Craft your own binary bracelet. Take a tour of the William Gates Building. Or solve the puzzles on Pirate Island and find the codes

9 Feb 2024: Embark on an ice-cool journey of discovery – step inside British Antarctic Survey as we open our HQ doors in Cambridge on 16 March 2024 to unveil the fascinating world of polar research, technology, engineering and operations. Why is Antarctic ice

4 Mar 2024: Ever wanted to display your artwork on a punt? We are looking for student artwork relating to the theme of WATER to display on punts on the River Cam as part of Cambridge Festival Creatives. The aim of this exhibition is to see how art interacts