Articles about 'Science'

Cambridge Science Festival kicked off today with an explosive show by Dr Peter Wothers and a visit from Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts.

Policy makers and scientists collaborate to create new science-policy research agenda.

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.

Dr Andrew Gillis shows us an embryonic skate head and explains how the red denticles dotted all over it have very similar properties to human teeth.

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

A unique poster that brings flaming elements to life through a smartphone app has been distributed to schools across the UK and further afield as part of the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge, using technology developed in the University’s Department of Engineering.

Using an electron microscope it’s possible for the human eye to see in minute detail the foot of the fruit fly – an appendage that is just about the same width as a human hair.

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.

The history of human reproduction – via its communication through the ages – is examined in a ground-breaking exhibition opening this week at Cambridge University Library.

Notes and comments scribbled by Charles Darwin on the pages and margins of his own personal library have been made available online for the first time.