A group of students from the University of Cambridge who plan on launching a rocket into space for less than £1,000 have taken the first steps towards achieving their ambitious goal.

Listen to lectures by some of the UK’s premier scientists without leaving your home.

Adult learners are to be given the chance to study everything from climate change to ancient Rome online with the University of Cambridge, starting this month.

Seafront communities are being left wide open to the risk of flooding because of the loss of coastal ecosystems, a Cambridge academic has warned.

The BA Festival of Science will take place in Norwich from 2 – 9 September, bringing together over 300 of the UK’s top scientists and engineers, including Cambridge academics, to discuss the latest developments in science with the public.

Cambridge and Oxford have enjoyed their first victory for six years in a transatlantic student tennis competition, played out against opponents from Harvard and Yale.

Professor James Secord from the History and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Cambridge has been appointed director of the Darwin Correspondence Project.

Asian vultures are at risk of lethal kidney failure if they feed from carcasses of a cow that died after treatment with the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac.

Clearing 2006: Please note The University of Cambridge has NO COURSE VACANCIES through Clearing. Further information about Clearing is available from the UCAS website.

By promoting better hygiene, health education and donated antibiotics, blindness could be drastically reduced, according to an article by a University of Cambridge PhD candidate in this week’s issue of The Lancet.