Cambridge Science Festival

This lecture, by Professor Malcolm Longair, tells the story of the development of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology over the 800 years of Cambridge University's existence. A Cambridge Science Festival 2009 lecture.

A recording of the Intercontinental Music Lab performing songs from their album Superheroes of Science. The musical lecture took place in the Babbage Lecture Theatre on Saturday 14th March 2009.

Dr Sadaf Farooqi, a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at Addenbrooke's Hospital will look at the genetic factors which cause human obesity and the dramatic response that patients can experience following leptin therapy, including the critical role this hormone plays in the regulation of human food intake. A Cambridge Science Festival 2009 lecture.

A fun lecture with Peter Wothers all about light.

Popular scientist Dr Chris Smith presents a radio programme on parasites and ultraviolet LED's for clean water.

Join in the Cambridge Science Festival excitement! This time Helen Czerski takes us to the physics department at Cambridge, known as the Cavendish laboratory. She turns the oxygen in a ballon liquid, explaining how the molecules zoom around. She shows us how to tell a real diamond from a fake diamond. Finally, she shows us a really big gun - the single stage gas gun at the Cavendish, which can fire objects at 1000s of miles per hour. She shows us how the diamond cracks when shot at with very high speed. Finally, she shows us what happens when a drop of water falls through a soap bubble.

Why is nose snot is good for your lungs, and how to make electricity from hairy legs! Dave Ansell is also one of the Naked Scientists (see our previous podcast), and he's always out and about at the Cambridge Science Festival with the CHaoS crowd, bringing exciting science to a young audience! In case CHaoS doesn't mean anything to you - check out the CHaoS movie and other movies from the Cambridge Science Festival at http://www.sciencelive.org/content/view/65/52/

Join in the Cambridge Science Festival excitement, and see what Peter Wothers gets up to in his science festival lectures! This lecture is taken from the 2008 Cambridge Science Festival.