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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: Get hands-on with us at the MRC Toxicology Unit, where we will be exploring the fascinating world of our gut microbiome.

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: 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: 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: 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: Join us for a fun and educational day of discovery about how to protect the Earth from global warming.

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.

9 Feb 2024: Experience a captivating fusion of art, history and science as Diploma and Foundation students from Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts (CSVPA) come together in mixed-specialism groups in response to key exhibits from the Whipple Museum’s

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