Public engagement
A new portrait of Lord Martin Rees, Master of Trinity College, will be taking centre stage during a new display at the National Portrait Gallery celebrating the International Year of Astronomy.
A special debate tonight, Friday 20 March, will bring two world-renowned scientists head-to-head. Professor Lewis Wolpert (pictured) and Dr Rupert Sheldrake will debate their differing theories about the nature of life.
Experts say brain scans could soon be used to detect lies, vulnerability to mental illness and even criminal behaviour. But how far can, and should, we allow research to go? Should we be worried?
Statistics are essential, from helping us to make choices in our day to day lives to predicting what might happen in the future, but often they are boring and can be manipulated to serve a particular purpose.
How easy is it to kick our fossil fuel habit? Could Britain live on its own renewables? Professor David Mackay, from the Department of Physics, will offer a straight talking assessment of the numbers behind the UK’s need to reduce its energy consumption and move to sustainable energy solutions, in a lecture tonight.
The relationship between God and Darwin will come under the microscope in a Cambridge Science Festival panel discussion organised by the Faraday Institute this weekend (Saturday, 14 March).
Explosive chemistry, cosmic adventures and fun-filled activities will take over Cambridge this weekend as Cambridge Science Festival’s Science on Saturday returns on 14 March.
How easy is it to kick our fossil fuel habit? Could Britain live on its own renewables? Professor David Mackay, from the Department of Physics, will offer a straight talking assessment of the numbers behind the UK's need to reduce its energy consumption and move to sustainable energy solutions, in a lecture tonight.
A special debate in the style of the BBC’s Question Time will look at the issues surrounding stem cells facing both scientists and the public on Tuesday 10 March. It will feature the BBC’s Quentin Cooper and the creator of Dolly the Sheep, Professor Sir Ian Wilmut.
A total of 530 pupils attended the Science Master Classes which took place across the University of Cambridge last week as part of Cambridge Science Festival. They came from 30 different schools within a 70-mile radius of Cambridge.
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