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9 Feb 2024: Join researchers from the Department of Genetics for a variety of hands-on activities showing how genetics pops up in our everyday life.

9 Feb 2024: Come and meet the scientists of the University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences, renowned for its world-class research, and their co-workers from other university departments.

9 Feb 2024: FameLab, the science communication competition, returns to Cambridge. Join our finalists as they talk about their research in just three minutes with no presentations and limited props. Expect short snippets of fascinating science with, perhaps, a

9 Feb 2024: Join the enchanting Romani storyteller, renowned author and toymaker Richard O’Neill, often dubbed the “Romani Hans Christian Anderson”. Prepare to be captivated as he weaves his spellbinding tales, offering a delightful array of original and

9 Feb 2024: Fun crafts for kids with a Viking twist – come and join us in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic to make some Viking goodies!

9 Feb 2024: How do you wash hands correctly to help prevent the spread of infectious microbes? What do bacteria look like? Find out by looking at them through a microscope. Use craft materials to build your own microbes to learn about the structure of bacteria

9 Feb 2024: Researchers at the MRC Toxicology Unit are finding ways to make our medicines and environment safer! But what does that look like day-to-day? Well now you can follow our researchers, via our video series, and discover what a day as a scientist is

9 Feb 2024: Come and join us for a chat and an ice cream with some rare flavours that may not be around much longer. What can we do to take action? How can we contribute to solve the climate crisis? Can we find solutions so we do not have to shout Ice Cream!

9 Feb 2024: As part of the Festival Schools' Days, the Physics Outreach Office has put together a hands-on investigation which requires students to use curriculum science to solve problems.

9 Feb 2024: What is the relationship between science and science fiction when it comes to our knowledge of the life, the universe and outer space?

9 Feb 2024: Optical wonders We will present a number of simple yet unexpected optical phenomena each of which has significant practical uses in modern technology. A visual !WOW! factor in everything from stage ghosts to brushing your hair; from the size of a

9 Feb 2024: We will have some hands-on activities involving experiments that can be done on site to demonstrate the beauty of everyday molecular science: from blowing balloons to making toothpaste for elephants, there will be a bit of ‘non-explosive’ fun

9 Feb 2024: Join us for a unique workshop where we explore the future of the Fens and discover the vital work undertaken by the Cambridge Centre for Landscape Regeneration (CLR).

27 Feb 2024: Come hear Sean Cooney of BBC 2 Folk award-winning trio the Young’uns, sing songs written with schoolchildren to celebrate their appreciation of nature and their local communities at the Cambridge Festival on Saturday, 23 March 2024, 2-3 pm, as

9 Feb 2024: We all struggle with bad habits in our life, but why do we have them, how do we overcome them and what does it reveal about our human predicament?

9 Feb 2024: What are cells? How many do you have? What are they made of? At the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, we study the building blocks of cells and how they work. We then try to discover what happens when they go wrong.

9 Feb 2024: In the Bubble Superstars Show, we'll be exploring bubbles of different sizes and investigating their shapes and colours too. The show is specially designed for very young children and children with special needs, so everyone can join in making

9 Feb 2024: Come and learn about cancer by taking part in multiple activities: look at real cancer cells under the microscope, make your own 3D cells, find the right antibody (key) that fits the right antigen (lock), or try your hand at origami to make your own

9 Feb 2024: Modern vaccines are safe and effective. Join Dr Brian Ferguson and colleagues to find out how they work to protect against infectious diseases. Our stand, in partnership with the British Society for Immunology (BSI), will help to explain the

9 Feb 2024: Come along to this drop-in event and find out from Dr Joe Hutton and his team how certain infections can spread to the joints, leading to temporary arthritis. You will also be able to learn about the role of macrophages in fighting infection, joint

9 Feb 2024: A fascinating series of short films with researchers at Cambridge who are imagining the future. These films share an insight into the researchers and their work.

9 Feb 2024: The Nazis are well known for covering up their crimes by destroying evidence. But what role can archaeology play in uncovering new evidence? This session will reveal the work of conflict archaeologists. This event will take place via Zoom.

9 Feb 2024: Being subject to a Greek tyrant was bad, but was being a tyrant yourself good if you could get away with it? Join Il-Kweon Sir for this lunchtime foray into those early Greek lyric poets who, living in the age of tyrants, explore the almost

9 Feb 2024: Kamal Ahmed, former BBC Economics editor and editor-in-chief of the News Movement, is in conversation with the University of Cambridge's Professor David Spiegelhalter and award-winning journalist Marianna Spring, about the manipulation of statistics

9 Feb 2024: Cambridge mathematicians work on everything from number theory to the Big Bang, using maths to tackle problems ranging from climate change to modelling the spread of pandemics.

9 Feb 2024: Learning about viral tricks while using Lego is a one-of-a-kind experience, which will help young minds to explore the secrets of viruses and their unique strategies for survival.

9 Feb 2024: The history of science is full of amazing stories of discovery and invention, but there are also darker stories to be told.

9 Feb 2024: Dr David Sterling Brown – a tenured Associate Professor of English at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, USA, and a member of the Curatorial Team for The Racial Imaginary Institute, founded by Claudia Rankine – will offer a brief reading

9 Feb 2024: Lawyers often remind us that doctors must be subject to the law like everyone else. However some lawyers are less well attuned to the demands the Rule of Law makes on their own work. To defend the role of judges in overseeing health care this must

9 Feb 2024: An opportunity to see some treasures from the Whipple Library rare book collection, featuring some of the earliest Western scientific books, works by Darwin, Galileo, Newton and more, and (possibly) the smallest scientific book ever printed… This

9 Feb 2024: University Biomedical Services implements the 3Rs –Replacement, Reduction and Refinement – to ensure humane and ethical procedures are applied in scientific animal research.

9 Feb 2024: In this interactive story, Mandisa takes the audience through a journey that shows how small actions at the grassroots level can make a big impact. Along the way, there will be hidden clues and hints, pictures, props and music.

9 Feb 2024: Is your primary school age child a budding researcher? Find out by coming to this fun event for families. Come and visit the PEDAL’s popular Playful Learning Zone at the Faculty of Education to see play and education research in action.

9 Feb 2024: Have you ever wondered how doctors calculate your heart health? Did you know researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit can predict if you are likely to get heart disease in the next 10 years?

9 Feb 2024: Join our researchers to explore what it means to age and how the molecular processes in our bodies change as we develop from an embryo all the way through to old age.

9 Feb 2024: Our microbiology laboratory team work every day of the year testing patient samples sent in from doctors and hospitals across the East of England to help diagnose and treat illnesses.

9 Feb 2024: Join us on a tour exploring the historic connections between Cambridge and the British Empire.

9 Feb 2024: At this Multi-activity, family fun session, you can test out the games we use in our research with children and families.

9 Feb 2024: Make a working Grätzel solar cell using a few basic materials including something surprising – blackberries – with scientists at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

9 Feb 2024: Join a wide selection of interactive family events set to take place across the University's West Cambridge Campus. The West Hub will be open on Saturday the 16th March from 10-4. Guests will be able to visit the Creative Encounters exhibition on

9 Feb 2024: Using evidence from his own and other studies of corporate psychopaths, Dr Clive Boddy will discuss the incidence rates of female psychopathy in the adult population, and argue that there are more female psychopaths than anyone has previously

9 Feb 2024: For Humankind, materials have defined Ages, there was the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age…. These days plastics are the key materials for developing our technology and our standard of life. Is it possible to do without them? Which are the

9 Feb 2024: A museum-like display showcasing the scientific discoveries of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology to a future audience in the year 2124. Our question is: what would researchers today put into the display cabinet, and what would

9 Feb 2024: What do a giraffe, a frog, a shark and a robin have in common? They all have a skeleton. More than that, they all have a backbone: they’re vertebrates. Visit the Museum of Zoology for a day of free hands-on activities inspired by skeletons.

9 Feb 2024: In the Bubble Superstars Show, we’ll be exploring bubbles of different sizes, and investigating their shapes and colours, too. The show is specially designed for very young children and children with special needs, so everyone can join in making

9 Feb 2024: Kapla workshops are a wonderful way for children to discover their creativity and building skills. Join us in one of our workshops, facilitated by Jennier Norie of KAPLA UK, to have a go for yourselves.

9 Feb 2024: Led by writer Yvonne Battle-Felton, and using newspaper headlines, articles and pictures, we’ll write poetry and/or prose that re-imagines the past, present and future as we write our way through time.

9 Feb 2024: Conservation has many sides and is tackled in a wide variety of ways.

9 Feb 2024: Predominantly Muslim cities in Asia have historically been home to sizeable communities of ethno-religious minorities, including Jews, Christians, Sikhs and Hindus, as well as cultures of cosmopolitan urban living.

9 Feb 2024: Join us at the Institute of Astronomy for an open afternoon of hands-on activities, demonstrations, talks and displays all around our lovely, wooded site. Meet the scientists and telescopes, and learn more about both astronomy and the research we do.