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After long negotiations, on 19 February Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the European Council had agreed a new settlement for the United Kingdom in the European Union. In line with the Conservative Party manifesto, this agreement has triggered a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union to be held on Thursday 23 June. In this video, Catherine Barnard examines

In early January, a team of Cambridge scientists set out on an expedition to study and map the Larsen C ice shelf in western Antarctica, and – ice conditions permitting – search for the wreckage of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance. Professor Julian Dowdeswell, Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, is chief scientist on the ambitious expedition, which will use drones, satellites

Go Viral! is a new game developed in partnership between the UK Government and the University of Cambridge to help fight the ‘infodemic’: the deluge of false information about COVID-19. Based on ‘inoculation theory’, the game simulates an environment for users to play the role of a fake news producer, so they can understand how misinformation is circulated online. Play Go Viral! here:

Richard Watson, #futurist-in-Residence at the Entrepreneurship Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School, talks about the future of energy, health and AI – and the most dangerous idea in the world. Read more: www.cam.ac.uk/this-cambridge-life/the-futurist-who-would-like-the-future-to-slow-down Listen to Richard discuss the future of AI – its potential benefits and harms – in our recent Mind

Ready for a Cambridge adventure? ️ We have eight museums for you to explore and to help you get started, here's the first four: Museum of Zoology ❄️ The Polar Museum Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Whipple Museum of the History of Science Can you find them all? #Museums #CambridgeMuseums #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge #UniversityOfCambridge

Last episode, we talked about how we got to where we are now with climate change, but do we even know what’s going on with climate change right now? In this episode we’ll talk about what tipping points we’re approaching, how and why we’re still struggling to gain momentum toward action on climate change, and what difference it would make if carbon dioxide was a brown smelly substance. To

Pain in The Machine is a short documentary that considers whether robots should feel pain. Once you've watched our film, please take a moment to complete our short survey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/PainintheMachineSurvey Pain is a feeling that most would describe as being unpleasant, both physically and emotionally. Why then do humans and other animals have pain, and how is it useful?

How is the environment represented in children’s books? Can we talk to children about climate change through literature? These sorts of questions interest Dr Jenny Bavidge, Senior Lecturer in the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of English and Institute of Continuing Education, who explains here about how her work on literature connects with research in biodiversity conservation. This film

Cambridge researchers have captured on film the activity of T cells – an important component of our immune system – as they hunt down and kill cancer cells. For the first time, they have also shown how these cells reload their toxic weapons. Cytotoxic T cells are specialist white blood cells that are trained by our immune system to recognise and eliminate threats – including tumour cells

Douglas Kell, Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) looks back to C.P.Snow's famous "Two Cultures" lecture of 1959 and discusses the role the Biology research base to policy making today.

On display at the Whipple Library, Cambridge, is a book described as the 'most important book in the history of scientific racism' Current research into this book is revealing how racist ideas travelled between the United States and Europe in the 19th century. Crania Americana, published in Philadelphia in 1839 by Samuel George Morton, is being studied by Cambridge University PhD student James

Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores new and original thinking on some of the most pressing issues of the day. The aim of the Festival is to fuel people’s interest in arts, humanities and social sciences through a series of events ranging from talks, debates and film screenings to exhibitions and comedy nights. Of the over 250 events at the Festival, most are free. www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/

Flocking birds, weather patterns, commercial organisations, swarming robots... Increasingly, many of the systems that we want to engineer or understand are said to be ‘complex’. But what does this mean? How do these so-called 'complex systems' differ from the more easily understood systems that we are familiar with? Visit: http://complexityprimer.eng.cam.ac.uk for more on complexity and

New research, from the laboratory of Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz of the University of Cambridge, enables scientists to view critical aspects of mammalian embryonic development which was previously unobservable. Around the fourth day, at which point the developing embryo implants into the mother's womb, its development becomes hidden from view as this is taking place. Yet this is a very

Our society is more unequal than ever, as the top 1% control over 44% of the world’s wealth while 689 million people are living on less than $1.90 per day. In this episode, we asked our guests what the future of fairness, justice, and equality should look like, and how their research can help to bring about a fairer society. Alexa Hagerty and Natalie Jones shared how injustice can be thought of

Find out more details here: https://bit.ly/3gOa2Tm The Cambridge Bursary Scheme has been extended for students starting their course in 2021. Non-repayable bursaries of up to £3,500 will be available to students with Home Fees status starting in 2021 onwards with residual* household incomes of up to £62,215. All new undergraduates in 2021 will be eligible for the new bursary scheme, regardless

An anti-fraud laser detector could be used to identify counterfeit banknotes, pharmaceuticals and luxury goods. The prototype was developed with support from the Cambridge Innovation and Knowledge Centre

On 1 October 2010, in a ceremony in Cambridge's Senate House, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz was admitted to office as the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He was previously Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council, and before that Deputy Rector of Imperial College London. The University of Cambridge is one of the world's greatest research Universities, with 17,500 students

Do you like to lift? ️‍♀️ MPhil student Larabella Myers is part of the Cambridge University Powerlifting Club. She's trying to qualify as one of the Club's representatives to face Oxford in the Varsity competition later this term! #Powerlifting #DeadLift #GymLife #UniSport #Varsity #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge #UniversityOfCambridge

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, J is for Jay – a surprisingly clever corvid with the ability to mimic human voices and much more. Jays are corvids – members of the crow family. The jays we see in Britain are Eurasian jays. With their pinkish plumage, and characteristic flash of blue, they