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The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund has provided £3.8 million to endow in perpetuity a professorship in Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge.

Tonight’s Cambridge Science Festival ’‘Spotlight on Science’ lecture will focus on the ground-breaking research being conducted in physics at the world-famous Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Professor Andy Fabian of the Institute of Astronomy will talk about future developments in cosmology, including dark matter, black holes, and other universes.

Are you lucky or just obeying the laws of chance? Simon Singh, author of ’‘Fermat's Last Theorem’, ’‘The Code Book’ and ’‘Big Bang’, looks at the mathematics behind various situations involving luck, risk and coincidence, from the casino to the hospital, from the courtroom to the supernatural. Indeed, our lives are dominated by the laws of chance...an oxymoron if ever there was one. Simon will give some examples that illustrate how our intuition often misleads us, and he will demonstrate how mathematics and critical thinking can help us live, thrive and survive.

Do the genes for autism and scientific ability run in the same families? Tonight, as part of the ’‘Spotlight on Science’ series at the Cambridge Science Festival, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen will discuss classic autism and Asperger Syndrome, two subgroups on the autistic spectrum.