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Sir Mark Walport set out his priorities today at the Centre for Science and Policy’s annual conference

From the elixirs of legend to transmutation of base metals into gold, medieval medical practice and social mobility were steeped in alchemy.

Following the huge success of BBC Radio 5 live’s inaugural Science Night last December, the University of Cambridge’s Dr Chris Smith and his fellow ‘Naked Scientists’ will return to present Science Night 2 on Sunday 19 August from 7.00pm.

The Cambridge Science Festival Schools Roadshow programme kicked off last week with a Schools Hub at Sawston Village College on Thursday 1 March. Academics from the University of Cambridge led exciting workshops, giving science talks and demonstrations to pupils from six primary schools and from Sawston Village College.

Bookings for the UK’s largest free science festival open this morning at: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival

Eminent thinker and commentator Revd Dr John Polkinghorne, Fellow of the Royal Society, will be giving a public talk – titled A Destiny Beyond Death - tomorrow lunchtime at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. It is part of a series organised by the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. Here he gives an overview of his understanding of the relationship between what are generally considered to be two opposing schools of thought.