Understanding how advanced cognitive abilities evolve has long fascinated researchers and the wider public alike. Questions about the origins of traits often seen as hallmarks of humans, including language, tool use and culture, naturally lead to curiosity about whether other animals show similar abilities and what evolutionary pressures might shape them.
In Lusaka, amid the heat and hum of Zambia’s capital, a quiet transformation is underway. It is not powered by policy nor by politics, but by pictures - vivid, intimate, questioning pictures that insist on being seen.
Ahead of our key-note talk on the future of breast cancer, we spoke with members of the Radiotherapy Research Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Group, who work alongside researchers and clinicians in Cambridge. Here they reflect on their role, their experiences, and why involving people with lived experience of cancer is essential to improving radiotherapy for future patients.
Your chance to meet some of our speakers taking part in the Cambridge Festival 2026.
Your chance to meet some of our speakers taking part in the Cambridge Festival 2026.
As public trust in institutions is tested, artificial intelligence reshapes everyday life and the effects of climate change become impossible to ignore, the University of Cambridge has announced the full programme for the 2026 Cambridge Festival, a city-wide celebration of ideas that refuses to look away from the defining questions of our time.
Over 500 KS2 and KS3 students from as far away as Warrington got the chance to experience studying at the University of Cambridge with a selection of lectures and workshops held as part of the Cambridge Festival.
Dr Martin Reuhl is a Senior Lecturer in German Intellectual History in the Faculty of History and a University Associate Professor in German History and Thought in the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.
Katherine Hasegawa is an emerging and independent Venezuelan ARTivist based in Cambridge. Since 2019, Katherine been using real money as an artistic tool to protest peacefully against acts of injustice.
Dr Sam Nallaperuma-Herzberg is a Senior Research Associate at Cambridge University’s Department of Computer Science and Technology, and a Fellow in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Science and Society at the Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery.
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