Cambridge Science Festival

Saturday 17 March, 8:00AM - 5:00PM From hidden engineering on the nano scale to origami designs for engineering structures, explore an exhibition of astounding photographs taken by staff and students from the Department of Engineering.

Saturday 17 March, 9:00AM - 5:30PM A very small table-top display about the work of the Darwin Correspondence Project, which is publishing all the available letters to and from Charles Darwin.

Saturday 17 March, 10:00AM - 4:00PM Join the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, and put on a lab coat - come and run a DNA gel, compete in a pipetting challenge and examine some tissue down a microscope.

Saturday 17 March, 10:00AM - 4:00PM Come and see where the amazing structures of proteins has lead the artist, Jenny Langley. Textiles and prints will be displayed along with sources of inspirations and sketchbooks.

Saturday 17 March, 10:00AM - 4:00PM Explore the world of stem cells with the MRC Centre for Stem Cell Biology. Along with many games and activities you'll get to put on a labcoat and goggles and use a pipette in a 'wet lab' experiment to see how to feed and care for stem cells on a daily basis.

Saturday 17 March, 11:00AM - 12:00PM Find out what it is like to study science, engineering or technology at the University of Cambridge.

Saturday 17 March, 11:00AM - 5:00PM This new exhibition charts the development of evolutionary thought through the 19th century. Discover the origins of Darwin’s big idea in earlier works, and explore the alternative theories that led to some of science’s most impassioned debates.

Saturday 17 March, 2:00PM - 3:00PM Find out what it is like to study science, engineering or technology at the University of Cambridge.