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The '60 Second Impressions' are a series of one-minute films featuring current Cambridge undergraduate students. These students talk about what it's really like to study at Cambridge, live in a College, and take part in a wide range of extra-curricular activities. Alexa is from the USA, and is studying HSPS. In her 60 Second Impression, she talks about the diverse range of people at Cambridge and

History student Millie talks about the new society she helped make in Cambridge #Cambridge #Feminism #Feminist #Uni #MyCambridgeSoc #StudentLife #History

This electron microscope picture, reminiscent of man-made baskets or children's blocks, shows micron-scale balls formed from cubic salt crystals that have been forced to form in spheres. Experiments don't always give you the results you hope for, and this photo is the result of the attempt to make spheres from cubes. It failed, but instead gave us a beautiful image and a striking demonstration of

It was thought that no bronzes by Michelangelo had survived - now experts believe they have found not one, but two - with a tiny detail in a 500-year-old drawing providing vital evidence. - See more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/michelangelo-bronzes-discovered They are naked, beautiful, muscular and ride triumphantly on two ferocious panthers. And now the secret of who created these

A new controller device that greatly improves the ease of use of 3D medical imaging workstations has been developed at the University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke's Hospital.

The placenta is the interface between the mother and her baby, which means it is not only key to a successful pregnancy, it determines the future health of every one of us. In this film Professor Graham Burton discusses how the Trophoblast Centre was established to generate a fresh approach into placental research. The Centre focuses on common complications during pregnancy that have their roots

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

The brain is made up of billions of nerve cells, or neurons, wired together in a highly complex and organised way. But how do they know where to go when the brain is developing? These remarkable time-lapse movies capture the journey of living neurons in the frog brain. Narrated by Professor Christine Holt, these movies show some of the discoveries of her research group in the Department of

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

Skeletal remains of a group of foragers massacred around 10,000 years ago on the shores of a lagoon is unique evidence of a violent encounter between clashing groups of ancient hunter-gatherers, and suggests the “presence of warfare” in late Stone Age foraging societies. Listen to researchers from Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies discuss the findings, and what they