Sarah from London is tossing a coin. In front of her, 30 people are standing with their hands on their heads – if they are predicting a head – or by their sides, if they think the coin has come up tails.
̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge aspiration-raising programme highlighted as an example of best practice by independent inquiry.
̽»¨Ö±²¥winning entries of the 2012 Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering, sponsored by Carl Zeiss, provide a stunning visual insight into the ways in which engineering makes a vital contribution to our lives.
This month, the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge will be profiling research that addresses risk and uncertainty. To begin, Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, explains why this is a vital field of academic research.
Cambridge is fielding a series of talks and debates by leading academics on a range of global challenges at this year's Hay literary Festival.
A new study published in Conservation Letters aims to measure whether parks and reserves in the tropics succeed in protecting forests.
A free public lecture looking at the recent rise of the Danish contemporary art scene will take place at Churchill College on November 24, given by top art critic Lisbeth Bonde.
Modern politicians are too stuck in a 24/7 media bubble to make the kind of grand speeches associated with past leaders, a debate on political rhetoric at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas heard last week.
Joy Juma, from Kenya, is among the first early-career conservation practitioners to take an innovative Masters programme at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge.
A Nobel Prize Medal, a postcard from Einstein and a Hitler-stamped letter of expulsion are among a fascinating archive of documents and other material belonging to Max Born – one of the fathers of quantum mechanics – being opened by Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥â€™s Churchill Archives Centre.
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