The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Psychopath. No sooner is the word out than images of murderers, rapists, suicide bombers and gangsters flash across our minds. But not all psychopaths...
Cambridge Science Festival 2013
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Welcome to the Cambridge Science Festival, your opportunity to discover, question and take part in scientific activity at the University of Cambridge.
Incredible edibles
Stefan Gates (BBC1’s Food Factory and CBBC’s Incredible Edibles) and Professor Andrea Sella (Incredible Edibles’ brilliantly bonkers chemist) take you...
Party Hard! The Maths of Connections
How many guests need to come to a party, to guarantee that at least five of them either all know each other or are mutual strangers? Join Dr Colva Ron...
Our fluid Earth
Fifty years ago people imagined the Earth as a solid planet, unchanged for millions of years, until plate tectonics showed continents drifting 25cm ea...
Open access
The move to open access publishing has the potential to transform researchers’ communications and access to information by the public on a global scal...
Open your mind with the Naked Scientists
The Naked Scientists take you on an interactive journey through the workings of the nervous system. If you're brave enough, they'll read your brainwav...
The infinity puzzle – from the Higgs Boson to the LHC
Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture Rutherford and Bohr discovered the nuclear atom 100 years ago. Roughly 50 years ago a theory of this basic structure ...
It’s not only children who are affected by ADHD
What causes ADHD? And how can it best be treated? Hyperactive, impulsive, restless and fidgety… these are all behaviours many parents are very familia...
How to spot a shabby statistic
2013 is the International Year of Statistics, and as data gets more open we can expect to be bombarded with bucket-loads of numbers, often being used ...
Disconnected; how not to do the Internet
Kate Russell is a journalist and reporter who, by her own admission, spends far too much time online. For the past decade she has dedicated her life t...