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Professor Stephen Hawking (1942 – 2018). Widely regarded as one of the world’s most brilliant minds, Stephen Hawking, who died this week at the age of 76, was known throughout the world for his contributions to science, his books, his television appearances, his lectures and through biographical films. He leaves three children and three grandchildren. All of us at Cambridge University will

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, nominated by Stephen Hawking, does the challenge in aid of the Motor Neurone Disease Association. Please text ICED55 £5 (or other amount) to 70070 (only available in the UK); visiting our Just Giving page; or call 01604 611860 referencing the 'Ice Bucket Challenge'.

The Isaac Newton Institute is a major research facility for the mathematical sciences in the UK and worldwide. This video explains its origins, its aims and objectives. Tim Hartford (Financial Times) presents a short film about the Newton Institute, with appearances by Professor Martin Rees (Trinity College, Cambridge), Professor Tim Gowers (Fields Medal Winner, Cambridge), Professor David Mackay

A treasure trove of archive papers and personal objects belonging to Stephen Hawking have been saved for the nation after being acquired by Cambridge University Library and the Science Museum. The arrival of the 10,000 page archive at the University Library means that three of the most important scientific archives of all time – those of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking – are

Stephen Hawking helps to launch Centre for the Future of Intelligence Artificial intelligence has the power to eradicate poverty and disease or hasten the end of human civilisation as we know it – according to a speech delivered by Professor Stephen Hawking this evening. For more information and a transcript of Professor Hawking's speech, click here:

Join us for a live event featuring Nobel Prize winner Sir Roger Penrose and Professor Eiichiro Komatsu Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich, to talk about BLACK HOLES, COSMOLOGY, AND SPACETIME SINGULARITIES. Sir Roger and Eiichiro will take us on a journey through space and time, looking forward to new insights from future experiments. The livestream for The Big Bang

Cambridge University Library is celebrating its 600th anniversary with an exhibition of priceless treasures communicating 4,000 years of human thought. To celebrate, we have made six films on the six distinct themes featured in Lines of Thought. The second film in the series looks at Gravity; by following the discussions of generations of great scientific minds, from Copernicus to Hawking via