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On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. One year on, Dr Rory Finnin, associate professor of Ukrainian Studies, reflects on the war and asks: what have we learned? Recorded 20 February 2023, nine years after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War.

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

Monday 9 May 2016 sees Sir James Dyson open some of the world's most advanced engineering facilities at the University of Cambridge - giving the institution's students and academics the space and means to prototype, invent and collaborate on cutting-edge research.

Before and... a tiny bit after starting out at Cambridge. 4 soon-to-be students from around the country tell their own stories. Are you thinking about studying at Cambridge, but haven't started yet. Could this be you?

Fergus shares his reasons for picking @StEdmundsCollegeCambridge #WhyMyCollege #Education #ALevels #EduTok

Scientists have developed a 3D-printed robotic hand which can play simple musical phrases on the piano by just moving its wrist. And while the robot is no virtuoso, it demonstrates just how challenging it is to replicate all the abilities of a human hand, and how much complex movement can still be achieved through design.

The annual May Bumps; Cambridge University's annual summer rowing race. It takes place over four days on the River Cam and involves several divisions of men's and women's boats chasing each other in order to bump the boat ahead. Lucy Cavendish second crew had a tight final day's racing, narrowly avoiding being bumped by the chasing Queens' College crew.

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

Charles Darwin's mother Susannah Wedgwood died when he was just eight, and he could never remember her face - until he discovered a long-hidden portrait of her as a young woman. Hear Darwin's great-great-grandson Randal Keynes explain why finally seeing this miniature of his mother (on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum) was so significant for the great naturalist, and why portraits of loved ones

With Dr. David Starkey. More than the biographies of the kings and queens of England, this lecture is an in depth examination of what the English monarchy has meant, in terms of the expression of the individual, the Mother of Parliaments, Magna Carta, the laws of England and the land of England. The importance of the rich heritage of the Anglo Saxon kings is featured but it does not stop there.