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17 May
2023

Full steam ahead

Society members visit Bazalgette's masterpiece of engineering, the Crossness Pumping Station in South London. 

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29 April
2023

Sedgwick Studentships Available

Anglia Ruskin University and the Cambridge Philosophical Society are requesting applications for two PhD studentships, due to start in September 2023.

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29 April
2023

Cosmic Waves

Society members' visit the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge, site to the discovery of pulsars in 1967.

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06 March
2023

Humanity’s quest to discover the origins of life in the universe

Dr Emily Mitchell, Assistant Professor and Curator of Invertebrates in the Department of Zoology, Cambridge and previous Henslow Fellow recently gave a talk at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting in Washington DC on the Origins of Life: Humanity’s Quest to Discover the Nature of Life in the Universe.

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13 January
2023

Cosmic Wonder

Cambridge researchers create tetrataenite rare-earth-free magnets in the laboratory, which could help in the transition to low-carbon technologies.

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03 January
2023

Early career researchers talk about the importance of funding support

The Cambridge Philosophical Society has funded a number of early career researchers at The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI) in Cambridge, as part of the Society's grants and funding for scientists of the future.

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What Did Viruses Ever Do For Us? The Evolution of “Good” Viruses

Professor John Carr - President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

  • 17:30 - 18:30 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry Michaelmas Term Booking Recommended
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Do Children and Other Animals Think Like Scientists?

Professor Marta Halina

  • 17:30 - 18:30 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry Michaelmas Term Larmor Lecture
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