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To learn more, and find out if you're eligible, click here: http://bit.ly/CambridgeFoundationYear The Cambridge Foundation Year is free to students, who will come from a range of backgrounds, including: care-leavers, those estranged from their families, and those who have missed significant periods of learning because of health issues. Others will be people who have been unable to access suitable

Cambridge University has produced a series of films about five of this year’s Pilkington Prize winners. These films go behind the scenes to show Cambridge teaching in action as well as inviting winners to explain their passion for teaching and reveal some of their trade secrets. Dr Matthew Mason:University Physiologist. Matthew’s citation describes him as persistently striving to refine his

Cambridge research that will enable scientists to grow and study embryos in the lab for almost two weeks has been named as the People’s Choice for Science magazine’s ‘Breakthrough of the Year 2016’. Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience has developed a new technique that allows embryos to develop in vitro, in the absence of

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. Jono is in his final year at Cambridge studying History. In his 60 Second Impression, he talks about the academic support he has

Trials of a new needle-free coronavirus vaccine have begun in Cambridge, the city where it was developed by Professor Jonathan Heeney. The DIOS-CoVax vaccine is administered through a blast of air. It’s the first step towards a 'variant proof' coronavirus vaccine, which aims to protect against the virus that causes COVID-19 and future coronaviruses that threaten pandemics. Volunteers are being

Dr Kathy Liddell, who leads the Cambridge Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences, explains why it’s important to understand how the law can help advance – and help control – new biomedical technologies. One area of interest to the Centre is gene editing – the use of ‘molecular scissors’ that snip out and replace faulty DNA. Read more about how Cambridge researchers are working

Dr Iris Möller of the Cambridge Coastal Research Unit at the Department of Geography of the University of Cambridge explains how an understanding of natural processes and landforms can help us develop win-win solutions for reducing flood risk. Her international collaborative research team has been able to prove that coastal salt marsh protects sea defences during storm. When submerged in up to 2

Evolutionary Psychology and the Legacy of Sociobiology Professor Philip Kitcher (Columbia University, New York City, USA) Summary: The human sociobiology of the 1970s and 1980s was, I have argued, characterised by overly speculative hypotheses about human nature and the evolution of human tendencies to behaviour. Evolutionary psychology is often alleged to represent a significantly different, and

"It is often said that the lift on a wing is generated because the flow moving over the top surface has a longer distance to travel and therefore needs to go faster. This common explanation is actually wrong." Here, aerodynamics expert Professor Holger Babinsky from the University of Cambridge's Department of Engineering debunks a popular, yet misleading, explanation of how wings lift. For more

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. James is from North Yorkshire, and is studying Computer Science. In his 60 Second Impression, he talks about the unpretentious