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How do you plan your revision before exams? Chemical Engineering student Ethan from @GonvilleCaiusCollege has worked out what approach works for him that gives him time to do things outside his degree

Find out more here: https://bit.ly/ExploringLawCam2023 You can learn some key aspects of the #Law from #CambridgeUniversity lecturers in 24 hours via @futurelearn . Ideal for anyone hoping to study at Uni.

Jamaican poet Francis Williams may have been Cambridge's first black student in the 1720s. Black Cantabs president Surer Mohamed explores the questions that surround his legacy. Visit the Black Cantabs exhibition at the University Library, for more details visit: https://www.cam.ac.uk/BlackCantabs

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

An international team of astronomers has found a pulsating, dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns. This is the brightest pulsar – a dense stellar remnant left over from a supernova explosion – ever recorded. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/astronomers-discover-the-mighty-mouse-of-stellar-remnants

What does time on and time off look like for you? Kit from Student Minds Cambridge and Zaynab from Cambridge Students' Union share their tips on managing workload and staying well at Cambridge #ReachOutCambridge #MentalHealth #CambridgeStudents #CambridgeUniversity #StudentLife #TakeABreak #Wellbeing

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

Genomes: the books of life Professor Chris Ponting (University of Oxford, UK) Summary: DNA from across the tree of life presents a fascinating record of the impact of natural selection on animal evolution. Differences in anatomy and behaviour between species are reflected by changes both within genes and within DNA dark matter whose biology remains largely unknown.

In this video, you can see a group of isolated photoreceptors -- specialised light-detecting cells from the fly's eye - rapidly contract in response to light. This rapid contraction is believed to generate the electrical signal in the fly photoreceptor, which is the fastest visual response in the animal kingdom. Moving images courtesy of SCIENCE

Nissy Tee, Ibz Mo and Courtney Daniella offer advice and encouragement to all the students who attended the African-Caribbean Society's 2018 Access Conference.