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9 Feb 2024: Can you control a viral disease outbreak? Play the game, have fun and find out more about vaccinations with the Virus Fighter game! In this game, developed by Cambridge scientists and Cambridge school students, players must make decisions to try to

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

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: 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

9 Feb 2024: Some of the team from the Department of Archaeology, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and the Cambridge Archaeological Unit will be showcasing the variety of research within archaeology, through a range of hands-on activities

9 Feb 2024: Join us as we celebrate over 10 years of making, inventing and collaboration at Cambridge’s city centre makerspace. This is a chance to tour our workshops and see all kinds of equipment, ranging from 3D printers to the glassworking area.

9 Feb 2024: 6.30pm – Pre-concert talk & Exhibition: How can the arts interact with a Natural World in decline?

9 Feb 2024: What is a crystal? Which crystals are hiding in plain sight in our homes? Why isn’t old chocolate as good as new chocolate? If you are curious to find out the answers to these and many more questions, then get ready for an adventure to discover

9 Feb 2024: Join us for a presentation in our Business Lounge to explain how carbon-free, ammonia energy can shape the future, followed by a live hydrogen ignition demonstration on the balcony outside the lounge.

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: Commoners’ Comedy and Custard Comedy are delighted to present an evening of thought-provoking humour, beginning with... Samantha Day – The Booby Trap. Breasts loom large in our culture, but why are we so obsessed with them?

9 Feb 2024: See some of the latest science-based products from local companies, and win a prize for thinking of the most original ways to use them!

9 Feb 2024: Enter your school into this Cambridge Festival Philosothon Special! Philosothons promote philosophical enquiry and rigour by bringing students together around stimulus material that allows the group to move beyond discussion towards critical inquiry.

9 Feb 2024: Join Dr Jo for a fun and informative, interactive show as we journey around the human body, discovering wonders of biology along the way.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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