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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: Have you ever wondered how doctors calculate your heart health? Did you know researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit can predict if you are likely to get heart disease in the next 10 years?

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15 Feb 2024: 11:00am-12:30pm on Sunday 24 March. And in Can a Saint Wear Makeup?

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9 Feb 2024: During the Cambridge Festival, students and staff from the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts will be attending a variety of talks, events, workshops and activities.

9 Feb 2024: Come and learn about cells: the building blocks of our bodies! Our bodies contain around 100 trillion cells, which carry out a huge range of important jobs such as making energy from food, communicating messages from one part of the body to another,

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.

5 Mar 2024: In This Is Our Street! - Pop-up exhibition uncovering the story of 'Sturton Town' (23 & 24 March), the story of people living and working in Petersfield formerly known as ‘Sturton Town’

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: The workshop is designed for beginners and is aimed at everyone above the age of 8. Here's a chance to explore a new dance form, Kuchipudi, and learn how to use the body to tell a story. Participants will be made familiar with a brief history of the

13 Mar 2024: Tuberculosis: A Fishy Tale about a Deadly Disease (24 March, Lecture Theatre A, New Museums Site) – Jonathan Shanahan, a postdoc from the Department of Medicine, talks about how his lab’s ... The nomadic storyteller from the North (24 March, Babbage

9 Feb 2024: Researchers from our Rising Stars training course will be popping up throughout the Festival. With subjects from economics, law and children's health, to plants and astrophysics, join us for activities and a chance to chat to our stars of the future!

9 Feb 2024: Kapla workshops are a wonderful way for children to discover their creativity and building skills. Join us in one of our workshops, facilitated by Jennier Norie of KAPLA UK, to have a go for yourselves.

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.

22 Feb 2024: Bridging lived experience and scientific inquiry: A personal journey through OCD research (23 & 24 March) shows the human side of science and how personal battles can shape scientific progress. ... On the same (brain) wavelength: Neural synchronisation

9 Feb 2024: Throughout the history of science, people have been fascinated by the way vision works and how it can be tricked. Come along and discover how moving images can be created in different ways, how colours combine in unexpected ways and how you can tell

9 Feb 2024: An opportunity to see some treasures from the Whipple Library rare book collection, featuring some of the earliest Western scientific books, works by Darwin, Galileo, Newton and more, and (possibly) the smallest scientific book ever printed… This

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 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: Most diseases start in childhood, but most health research is carried out in adults.

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: 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: 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: 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: Get hands-on with scientists from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute to learn about the work they are doing as part of our mission for 3 in 4 people to survive cancer by 2034.

9 Feb 2024: The history of science is full of amazing stories of discovery and invention, but there are also darker stories to be told.

9 Feb 2024: University Biomedical Services implements the 3Rs –Replacement, Reduction and Refinement – to ensure humane and ethical procedures are applied in scientific animal research.

9 Feb 2024: Join Cambridge Festival for a free weekend of talks, workshops and hands-on activities for the whole family! From Amazing Animals to Romani storytelling, from bubble science to virtual reality; this is a weekend full of ideas to spark your curiosity

9 Feb 2024: Get hands-on with us at the MRC Toxicology Unit, where we will be exploring the fascinating world of our gut microbiome.

9 Feb 2024: Come along to Abbey People’s first Climate Café on Sunday 24th March. A Climate Café is a welcoming space to join the conversation about climate change and your local environment. Do you ever wonder… • How can I save energy at home? • What

9 Feb 2024: Dive into the pre-frontal cortex for an off-balance, fun, emotive dance exploration of the three modes of emotional regulation: threat, drive, soothe. Award-winning Infusion Physical Theatre looks at adrenaline, dopamine and oxytocin in a multimedia

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: Experience a captivating fusion of art, history and science as Diploma and Foundation students from Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts (CSVPA) come together in mixed-specialism groups in response to key exhibits from the Whipple Museum’s

9 Feb 2024: New Museums site, Bene't Street, CB2 3PT. East Anglian Air Ambulance is a charity providing life-saving critical care 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year by air and

9 Feb 2024: Join textile artist Clare Wilkes (@clareewilkes, www.periodically.blog) to hear about her temperature records in yarn and thread.

9 Feb 2024: Join us for an open day at the UK’s leading heart and lung hospital, and discover all about what goes into providing world-class heart, lung and sleep care to patients

9 Feb 2024: Researchers from the MRC Toxicology Unit are transforming into (temporary) tattoo artists for our family weekend! Choose a temporary tattoo, and while it’s being applied, talk to the researchers about the unique design and how it relates to their

9 Feb 2024: Join us as we kick off Sunday with a quiet hour. Come and colour in pictures that illustrate our research themes, design your own optical illusion, or have a go at solving one of our word searches or other puzzles. Why not create some graffiti for

9 Feb 2024: You are sure to have a blast creating and launching your own mini rocket! You will also be able to learn about aerodynamics and find out about some of the advances in technology that have improved lives in Cambridge and around the world.

9 Feb 2024: The award-winning Meta Lab uses emerging digital technology in innovative ways to create transformational educational experiences. Come and meet Lab Director, Dr Chris Macdonald, and experience a pioneering VR Public Speaking project.

9 Feb 2024: The SunSpaceArt team will be running ‘drop-in’ workshops for children during the family weekend (23–24 March 2024) at the Cambridge Festival.

9 Feb 2024: "Seeing is Believing? The Secrets of Visual Illusions Unveiled" is a journey into the mesmerizing world of optical illusions, specially designed for young, inquisitive minds.

9 Feb 2024: Tuberculosis is a deadly enemy. This centuries old disease has killed more people than any other disease in history. But is it still a problem today? The human immune system is a skilled opponent. So how does tuberculosis attack and how does the

9 Feb 2024: In this event, participants and families who are interested will be invited to test their knowledge about sustainable solutions to climate change by entering into our Sustainability Quest (which can be done autonomously).

9 Feb 2024: The Quiet Time at our Family weekend is perfect for people who want to experience the festival, in a quieter environment. Join Cambridge Festival for a free weekend of talks, workshops and hands-on activities for the whole family!

9 Feb 2024: The periodic table brings order to the 118 known elements.

9 Feb 2024: Come and see us during the family weekend and take part in our exciting hands-on activities, to spark your imagination.

9 Feb 2024: Join us for an interactive and educational experience that explores the science of how we form habits and its implications for both humans and animals.