Everyone’s path to Cambridge is different and, as a stepping stone to study, the Foundation Year programme is giving outstanding students a chance they might not have expected.

As new Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice takes up the reins, we ask: what does it really take to lead one of the greatest universities in the world?

Gallium nitride has the potential to transform energy use through its incredible efficiency, and Professor Rachel Oliver has dedicated her life to the cause.

Modern comedy might tussle with what is and isn’t appropriate, but it’s got nothing on the 18th-century Great Laughter Debate.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, CAM asks leading Cambridge experts to give their views on the issues that matter.

Celebrating Darwin in Conversation, the decades-long project that explored the lives and work of Darwin’s correspondents.

Britpop, Ross and Rachel, cyber cafés, Cool Britannia, Tamagotchis and doing the Macarena. Think the 1990s were frivolous? Think again. 

Generation Alpha is set to inherit a world completely unrecognisable from the one their parents and grandparents remember. We uncover what childhood looks like in 2023.