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Communicating the transformative impact on society of eight centuries of brilliant academic thought. Cambridge research together with comment and opinion on national and international current affairs.
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Gaia's mission: solving the celestial puzzle
A space mission to create the largest, most-accurate, map of the Milky Way in three dimensions will revolutionise our understanding of the galaxy and...
Darwin's Women
The Darwin Correspondence Project is researching Charles Darwin's letters and has so far located more than 15,000 he either sent or received. The ful...
Cambridge Ideas - The future of energy?
Today, we consume a truly vast amount of energy - with demand continuing to skyrocket at an alarming rate. We know that producing this energy has sign...
Cambridge Ideas - Memories Of Old Awake
Dr Emily Lethbridge, a Cambridge University academic, is exploring the centuries-old Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) during a unique year-long r...
Cambridge Ideas - Don't Eat the Plants
Are plants as defenceless as they appear? See the world how the plants do, as Professor John Parker, explores how plants – the ‘great scientists of th...
Cambridge Ideas - How Many Lightbulbs?
Cambridge University physicist, David Mackay, in a passionate, personal analysis of the energy crisis in the UK, in which he comes to some surprising...
Cambridge Ideas - Sticky Feet
Ants have incredibly sticky feet. With them they can hang onto ceilings, while carrying 100 times their body weight. But if they are stuck down so suc...
Cambridge Ideas - The Perfect Crew?
Striving for, and achieving, high performance in teams has become a major business imperative. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research with the...
Cambridge Ideas - Strange Seas of Thought
A journey into Wordsworth's mind and the process of creation. We know about the experiments that have led to great scientific discoveries is widely re...
Cambridge Ideas - Vanishing Voices
Of the world's 6,500 living languages, half will cease to be spoken by the end of this century. Dr Mark Turin, director of the World Oral Literature P...
Cambridge Ideas - This Icy World
Cambridge University glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the polar regions.
As Director of t...
Cambridge Ideas - The Emotional Computer
Can computers understand emotions? Can computers express emotions? Can they feel emotions? The latest video from the University of Cambridge shows how...
Cambridge Ideas - Forgotten Heroes
A Cambridge University archaeologist, along with two other researchers in Guernsey, has uncovered a previously unseen archive featuring the testimonie...
Cambridge Ideas - The Crime Experiment
Eminent criminologist Prof Lawrence Sherman has just set up a long term experiment with the police, to scientifically study crime in Manchester and co...
Cambridge Ideas - Professor Risk
David Spiegelhalter's proper title is Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk. He is in two minds (literally) about playing it safe or chucking...
Cambridge Ideas - The Music In Me
Dr Jason Rentfrow, from the University's Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, explores the links between personality and musical taste.
Cambridge Ideas - Bird Tango
Professor Nicky Clayton researches the social behaviour, intelligence and dance credentials of birds! As an accomplished dancer in her own right she h...
Cambridge Ideas - Just Add Water
Rotifers are tiny animals that survive against all the odds. They are also known for not having had sex for 80 million years.
We follow...
Cambridge Ideas - Seven Ages of the Body
Dr John Robb is an archaeologist and has been studying how people have understood the human body over the last 10,000 years.
“It may s...