People’s Portraits – an extraordinary collection of portraits of ordinary Britons – celebrates its tenth anniversary in May when best-selling author P.D. James unveils three stunning additions to the collection: a Cornish fishmonger, a dinner lady from Lewisham, South London and a Manchester charity worker.
From harnessing wind power to generating clean coal technologies, the UK Government has of late increased its investments in green initiatives as a strategic means of creating sustainable opportunities. A free seminar highlighting these opportunities will take place tomorrow evening, Thursday 29 April.
Neuroscience is increasingly finding clear links between neural mechanisms within the brain and human actions, behaviour and thought. This raises questions about what it means to be human and the nature of belief and choice.
The first in a new series of BBC Radio 4 debates, held in association with the University of Cambridge, in which some of Britain’s leading thinkers will be forced to adopt a contrary position in order to win, will be recorded this evening at Judge Business School.
The editor-in-chief of the influential science publication Nature is to give a talk at Cambridge about how scientists should react when their research comes under attack in public debates.
A new research collaboration involving historians from Cambridge is to examine how early medieval societies used the past to form ideas about identity which continue to affect our own present.
The transformation of Cambridge University Press from the mid-20th century will be examined in a three-part lecture series starting on 26 April.
Using field experiments in Africa and a new computer model that gives them a bird's eye view of the world, Cambridge scientists have discovered how a bird decides whether or not a cuckoo has laid an egg in its nest.
More than 800 people from 82 different countries attended the annual Scholars’ Reception of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and the Cambridge Overseas Trust yesterday evening at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
A major exhibition of new sea paintings by one of Britain’s most distinguished contemporary artists – Maggi Hambling – will open at The Fitzwilliam Museum next week
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