Festival of Ideas

A University of Cambridge academic is to suggest that grown-ups enjoy children’s classics because they are dissatisfied with life in the adult world...

The curious bronze, knuckle-shaped object pictured is an ancient weight excavated from the east coast of Italy. The inscription scrawled along its...

Freedom, revolution and communication have shaped human history since the earliest days of mankind.

Facebook encourages people to be more sociable and acts as a form of personal biography, according to a research project conducted by a Cambridge...

Hundreds of schoolchildren in South Cambridgeshire will learn about the science of musical sound this week as part of a touring outreach exercise.