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9 Feb 2024: Man-made climate change is one of the greatest existential challenges facing society. The consequences of this will be felt more acutely in the Global South, which already faces challenges of accessing food, clean water and energy.

9 Feb 2024: Our research group will be running an interactive Kahoot quiz with some interesting questions related to energy technologies. This event will run both in person and online simultaneously. Group members will also share highlights of their own

9 Feb 2024: Crime fiction is the UK's most read, bought and borrowed genre. Cambridge University Library is drawing on its world-leading collections of British crime fiction to stage a murderously good exhibition!

9 Feb 2024: A seafarer keeps anxious watch in a storm, care-worn and shivering in the ice-cold waves; a lone wanderer travels the ocean in exile, weary under heart-sorrow and grief; in Beowulf, a hart trapped between huntsmen and the sea-edge must choose his

9 Feb 2024: What comes to mind first when you think of artificial intelligence (AI)? Perhaps self-driving cars or maybe Netflix recommendations.

9 Feb 2024: Much public talk about climate change is framed around an ever-diminishing time window within which climate change must be stopped.

9 Feb 2024: Cambridge lecturer Carlos Fonseca will be in conversation with Parvathy Salil, to discuss the overlap between his work as a novelist and his work as an academic.

9 Feb 2024: This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the ground-breaking discovery and synthesis of quantum dots. But what exactly are quantum dots, and are there other nanomaterials of significant interest? Furthermore, how are these tiny

9 Feb 2024: This screening is part of a series of Cambridge Festival events on “Reproductive Futures”. Please join us for the other events: a screening of THE POD GENERATION (2023) on 22 March and an exhibition and panel discussion about embryo models on 17

9 Feb 2024: The Centre for Intercultural Musicology at Churchill College will curate an experiential session on mindfulness, breathwork, motion and music. The aim of this interactive public engagement event is to promote relaxation using established wellness

9 Feb 2024: Join astronomer Dr Matt Bothwell as we answer all these questions (and more!) on a dastardly tour of our deadly Universe. Everything you ever wanted to know about space (but were so very afraid to ask) awaits. Bring your space questions and your

9 Feb 2024: This talk by Violet Hatch is based on her wider PhD project, which is examining the theme of hauntings in BBC radio dramas of the interwar period.

9 Feb 2024: When Afrofeminist activists take to the streets of Paris, what do their protests have to do with environmentalists 250 miles away, battling with police to defend an autonomous zone preventing construction of an airport?

9 Feb 2024: Come to the Polar Museum for a talk and tour by the researchers behind the Arctic Cultures exhibition. There will be a 20 minute talk followed by the chance to browse the exhibition and talk to the researchers. Drop in event. For ages 16+

9 Feb 2024: Family-day sharing interactive activities about the latest research across the University's cutting edge Biomedical Campus.

9 Feb 2024: PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGE!

13 Feb 2024: What does time feel like? In grief, in love or when juggling tasks? In mindfulness or in memory? In an interesting conversation or when waiting for news? Through a timer and 11 varied objects, we invite you to take part in 1:1 discussions about the

9 Feb 2024: Madison Bennett, current PhD student, will share techniques about the process of parchment making, with opportunities for you to get hands-on by smoothing parchment using pumice stones and having a go at writing on them too!

9 Feb 2024: Water is all around us – most of the planet’s surface is covered with it, and it is the main substance inside you. In this exciting demonstration lecture, we will explore some of the surprising properties and reactions of this substance that you

9 Feb 2024: Research using data from patient records has the potential to increase our understanding of health conditions and support the development of better treatments and medicines.

9 Feb 2024: A Routes into Languages East event celebrating languages and the wonderful multilingual poets from schools in the region on this, the 70th anniversary of Murray Edwards College.

9 Feb 2024: "We don't exist in this world. Here, we are neither Germans nor refugees, we don't report the news and we aren't the experts. We're some sort of wildcard." Shida Bazyar is a prizewinning writer.

9 Feb 2024: Find out more about pottery from the past in a session that covers key developments in Roman pottery. You will also have the opportunity to get hands on with piecing together sherds into complete vessels, as well as having a go at recording too.

9 Feb 2024: To celebrate the diverse and vibrant Indigenous music and performance art, the Indigenous Studies Discussion Group at CRASSH will present a family-friendly workshop, at which various groups of UK-based Indigenous artists from across the world will

9 Feb 2024: 2024 marks the 300th anniversary of the first performance of Bach’s towering masterpiece, the St John Passion which debuted on Good Friday in 1724 in Leipzig. Still revered today, it remains among the composer’s most cherished works.

9 Feb 2024: What is functional genomics and why is AI (artificial intelligence/machine learning) key to its interpretation? To find out this and more, join the Milner Therapeutics Institute as we take you on a tour through these new areas of medical research.

9 Feb 2024: Creative Encounters is a project that provides opportunities and funding to enable researchers to work with creative professionals to produce creative responses to their research.

9 Feb 2024: This screening is part of a series of Cambridge Festival events on “Reproductive Futures”. Please join us for the other events: a screening of HIGH LIFE (2018- Rated 18) on 15 March and an exhibition and panel discussion about embryo models on

9 Feb 2024: Join us for an enlightening and urgent exploration of a global health crisis that affects us all and touches every aspect of our lives: antibiotic resistance (AMR). The medicines that we depend on to treat and prevent infections are becoming less

9 Feb 2024: Join Cambridge University Library for an evening with crime writer Nicola Upson. Nicola will talk to us about curating the Library’s new exhibition, Murder by the Book, and the importance of crime writing as a genre. She will be in conversation

9 Feb 2024: How was music written down in the early 11th century? Lottie Wells explores the layout of three pre-Conquest ‘tropers’, manuscripts of notated chant, to discuss how music was learned and performed in England before the Norman Conquest.

9 Feb 2024: Professor Jason Arday will be in conversation with Dr Claire Hynes about race and society, about where we are now, where progress has been made and how much further there is to go. Chaired by Darren Lewis, Assistant editor and columnist of the Mirror

9 Feb 2024: Join Annabelle Campbell, the Director of David Parr House, to celebrate 10 years as a charitable trust. The talk will be about the discovery of 186 Gwydir Street and the road to saving, restoring and opening this extraordinary house to the public.

9 Feb 2024: This talk will reveal how the Manchu conquest of China transformed the sciences, politics and their relationship to each other, during the early modern period.

9 Feb 2024: In his lecture, Professor Erwin Reisner will present emerging technologies that can use the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and also biomass and plastic waste as precious resources in a solar-powered economy.

9 Feb 2024: When we interact others, our brains seem to synchronise in their activity. Greater levels of synchrony often suggests better social interactions and coordination. How does the brain achieve this? How do we measure this? And can neural synchrony

9 Feb 2024: In this fireside chat – which starts with a hopeful scenario for the future – you’ll hear stories from a global community of researchers on a mission to bring together the diverse knowledge, skills and experience needed to avoid catastrophe

9 Feb 2024: What does an Artist in Residence in a University of Cambridge Science department do? Clive Wilkins has been the Artist in Residence in the University of Cambridge, Department of Psychology for over twelve years.

19 Feb 2024: The aim of this poetry trail is to showcase student writing, draw connections between literature and botany, and provide an alternative way of navigating the gardens and interacting with the specimens it houses. Drawing on the plant profiles below,

9 Feb 2024: Are we alone, or is there other life in the universe? How did life start on Earth, and what might that tell us about life elsewhere? Cambridge scholars stand at the heart of efforts to answer those questions. Until the 1990s, no one knew whether

9 Feb 2024: Join us, the Rudd Research Centre team at the New Museum site off Pembroke Street in Cambridge to see street animations projected onto the wall opposite the Zoology café and further animations downstairs in the Museum of Zoology.

9 Feb 2024: Owen Elsley – tenor Daniel Prozesky – clarinet Ruth Pellegrini – viola Alex Reid – piano Bruch Three pieces from Eight pieces for clarinet, viola and piano Handel Where’er you walk Bach Ergiesse Dich reichlich Poulenc Clarinet sonata Finzi

9 Feb 2024: Researchers from Cambridge Cardiovascular will welcome Scouts to the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute, to offer them an insight into the research they do at the Institute and what it’s like to work in science

9 Feb 2024: Have you ever wondered what is done to actually confirm the outbreak of a disease? ‘Disease detectives’ are the ones who investigate when there is an outbreak. All your schoolmates are vomiting? We’ve got you covered. Sniffles doing the rounds

9 Feb 2024: Pre-eclampsia can have a devastating impact on women and their unborn child or children during pregnancy.

9 Feb 2024: Someone has stolen the beloved town trophy. A to-do list was accidentally dropped at the crime scene, and three supervillains found close to the scene were arrested, each had a pen. We will use chromatography to identify which pen was used to write

9 Feb 2024: Featured in early travel accounts of Brazil, in cabinets of curiosity, in early prints representing ‘America’, and even in a 1569 church monument in Oxfordshire, the Tupi ibirapema came to represent New World exoticism and savagery.

9 Feb 2024: Nigeria’s 2007 election is considered by Nigerians and international observers to be the most unfair election since the country achieved independence in 1960.

9 Feb 2024: 2024 marks the 300th anniversary of the first performance of Bach’s towering masterpiece, the St John Passion which debuted on Good Friday in 1724 in Leipzig. Still revered today, it remains among the composer’s most cherished works.

9 Feb 2024: Professor Mintz Habib, Founder of the Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge, and biologist Professor Giles Yeo, author of books including Why Calories Don't Count, are in conversation about the long-term