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Understanding and changing the world beyond 2050 Professor Lord Martin Rees (University of Cambridge, UK) Summary: By 2050, we will all be increasingly empowered by technology that potentially offers huge benefits to the developing and the developed world. But these same advances will pose novel ethical dilemmas, and render our ever-more interconnected world vulnerable to new and disruptive

In combining theory and experiments, we should have two objectives in mind. The first objective is to confront the theory with some data to see whether the theory is at all consistent with the behavior exhibited in the laboratory. Clearly, there is much that can be learned about the theory from the data, quite apart from any notion of "testing" the theory. We hope to learn whether the theory is

Kepler 's Trial is a cooperation between Ulinka Rublack, Professor of History at Cambridge University and Fellow of St John's College, composer Timothy Watts, who teaches at the Royal College of Music and Cambridge University, and London film- and sound-artist Aura Satz. The opera premiered at St John's College in October 2016 and follows on from Rublack's monograph The Astronomer and the Witch:

A chemical found in our breath could provide a flag to warn of dangerously-low blood sugar levels in patients with type 1 diabetes, according to new research the University of Cambridge. The finding, published today in the journal Diabetes Care, could explain why some dogs can be trained to spot the warning signs in patients. The researchers found that levels of the chemical isoprene rose

An inspiring and insightful lecture by Sir David Attenborough in the University of Cambridge Senate House marked the official launch of the Cambridge Conservation Campus. The Campus, due to be complete towards the end of 2015, will become the hub for the world's largest conservation cluster, the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI). It will be an international centre of interdisciplinary

For more information about studying at Cambridge: https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/ 0:00 - Intro 0:32 - School background 1:44 - Student finance 2:58 - State schools vs independent schools 3:52 - Settling in at university 5:12 - Choosing a College 6:24 - The most important part of the application process 7:12 - Interview success 7:52 - Student workload 9:18 - Shy students at interview

Professor Maarten Hajer (Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam), 'Reframing Climate Policy: Reflections on Science, Politics and the Role of the State'. Professor Hajer was delivering the keynote address at the conference 'Democratising Futures' (28 May). Part of the Mellon Sawyer sponsored seminar series

Join us at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2012 from 24 October - 4 November 2012 - a celebration of arts, humanities and social sciences with over 150 free events. Please visit www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas for more details

Fergus shares his reasons for picking @StEdmundsCollegeCambridge #WhyMyCollege #Education #ALevels #EduTok

Meet Zoe: a digital talking head which can express human emotions on demand with “unprecedented realism” and could herald a new era of human-computer interaction. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/face-of-the-future-rears-its-head