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Elephants demonstrate awareness of own bodies
Duration: 00:00:15
Published Date: 2017/04/12Asian elephants are able to recognise their bodies as obstacles to success in problem-solving, further strengthening evidence of their intelligence and self-awareness, according to a new study from the University of Cambridge. -
Vlogbridge winner: Saffia on enjoying freshers' week without…
Duration: 00:02:39
Published Date: 2018/04/12Newnham College student Saffia Mahmoud uses vlogging to 'big up' the Islamic Society of Cambridge for helping her settle into her new life on campus. -
The Vice-Chancellor’s annual 1st October address to the University
Duration: 00:05:13
Published Date: 2018/10/01The Vice-Chancellor marked the start of the new academic year this morning by giving his annual address to the University in the Senate House. www.cam.ac.uk/consultation -
City birds learn not to fear litter
Duration: 00:00:37
Published Date: 2016/11/14New research led by Gates Cambridge Scholar Alison Greggor, shows urban birds are less afraid of litter than their country cousins. It suggests they may learn that it is not dangerous and shows how some animals can learn to adapt to human-dominated environments. -
Pitcher plant uses rain drops to capture prey
Duration: 00:00:53
Published Date: 2012/06/11Researchers discover novel trapping mechanism for Nepenthes gracilis pitchers. During heavy rain, the lid of Nepenthes gracilis pitchers acts like a springboard, catapulting insects that seek shelter on its underside directly into the fluid-filled pitcher, new research has found. The findings were published today, Wednesday 13 June, in the journal PLoS ONE. -
House of Lords Reform
Duration: 00:10:20
Published Date: 2012/07/24The House of Lords Reform Bill, which is currently before Parliament, is the latest of many attempts to reform the upper chamber of the UK Parliament. It is over a hundred years since the enactment of the Parliament Act 1911, which changed the balance of power between the Lords and the Commons, but which was intended only as a stopgap measure pending the transformation of the Lords into an -
A Good Death? and Menagerie Theatre present: An Everyday Family…
Duration: 00:47:48
Published Date: 2021/03/27Join us for the premiere of An Everyday Family Practice, written by Patrick Morris, Co-Artistic Director of Menagerie Theatre Company. This touching, darkly humorous and at times challenging drama explores the impact on a family of a diagnosis of terminal illness. An Everyday Family Practice is an original short play, devised, filmed and premiered at the 2021 Cambridge Festival. Go to -
The making of a smart tunnel
Duration: 00:05:23
Published Date: 2014/06/09Ground-breaking new sensing technologies in the world's first 'smart tunnel' are providing engineers with an inexpensive and efficient method of monitoring, maintaining and protecting the UK's infrastructure, now and well into the future. -
Driverless vehicles trialled on West Cambridge site
Duration: 00:00:50
Published Date: 2021/06/03The suitably sci-fi autonomous vehicle is a 12-seater shuttle, developed by engineering firm Aurrigo and Smart Cambridge, a workstream of the Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP). Read more here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/universitys-expertise-advises-on-west-cambridge-site-trial-of-self-driving-shuttle -
'Mighty Mouse' pulsar
Duration: 00:00:24
Published Date: 2016/11/14An 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 -
Killer T Cell: The Cancer Assassin
Duration: 00:01:55
Published Date: 2015/05/19How does a Killer T Cell Kill its target? Our new film captures the behaviour of cytotoxic T cells – the body’s ‘serial killers’ – as they hunt down and eliminate cancer cells before moving on to their next target. -
Naked Mole Ravolt
Duration: 00:02:20
Published Date: 2021/05/04The naked mole rat's weird biology can help us develop ways to combat painful human conditions like osteoarthritis. In Episode 2 of Naked Mole Ravolt, see what happens when a new queen arises and what a fight for supremacy reveals! -
Cricket walking and responding to sound
Duration: 00:00:19
Published Date: 2015/09/14A female cricket mounted on a trackball walks towards the sound made by a male cricket. More information at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/neural-circuit-in-the-cricket-brain-detects-the-rhythm-of-the-right-mating-call -
Evelyn Fox Keller, Society and Health, Tue 7 July
Duration: 00:07:12
Published Date: 2009/10/06The neo-Darwinian synthesis brought great simplicity to Darwins ideas, but at a cost. Today, new scientific developments require a re-conceptualization of Darwinism that may be of particular importance to the social sciences: evolution is not just about DNA; it also depends crucially on heritable changes that occur without a change in DNA sequence, behavioural and symbolic inheritance. -
Why has it taken so long to take climate change seriously
Duration: 00:58:08
Published Date: 2021/03/28What or who has prevented urgent action on climate change? Why have policymakers lagged behind the science and technology? How much do individuals make a difference or has it needed people to work out how to make money out of climate change for politicians to take action? Is there a human tipping point - allied to the scientific tipping point - where more radical action becomes inevitable? And -
The Cycle of Terms
Duration: 00:00:45
Published Date: 2014/10/10There’s a long tradition of Cambridge University students cycling to their studies. With the new term in full swing we celebrate the morning pedal to lectures. -
New centre for conserving the natural world named in honour of Sir…
Duration: 00:02:40
Published Date: 2015/04/22An iconic building in the centre of Cambridge is, today, being named the David Attenborough Building, in honour of Sir David’s pioneering work in bringing the wonders of our natural world to our screens. -
The Vice-Chancellor’s Annual Address to the University - 2020
Duration: 00:35:50
Published Date: 2020/10/01The Vice-Chancellor marks the start of the new academic year this morning with a live annual address to the University community -
Illuminating the hidden kingdom of the truffle
Duration: 00:04:58
Published Date: 2018/02/11Truffles are one of the world’s most expensive ingredients, and also one of the most mysterious. Now, with the help of a 170-year-old ‘living laboratory’, and a dog called Lucy, researchers hope to unearth new understanding of the secret life of these underground delicacies. -
Playful naked mole-rats
Duration: 00:00:41
Published Date: 2015/09/02Playful naked mole-rats contribute to research into devastating medical conditions by Dr Ewan St. John Smith, Department of Pharmacology, who has been studying them for the past ten years. Find out more: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/n-is-for-naked-mole-rat
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