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The outcome of this weekend's Polish Presidential election could have dire consequences for the country's healthcare system if the leading candidate's plans to commercialise hospitals go ahead, a study has warned.

An ingenious new play which offers audiences a glimpse of what their own futures may hold as climate change takes effect is being performed in Cambridge this weekend ahead of its first London run.

On June 18, 1940, the Prime Minister first addressed Parliament, then the British nation, during one of the darkest and most uncertain moments of the Second World War. The Battle of France was coming to an end, the Battle of Britain was about to begin. The country stood alone against the might of a German offensive that had swept much of Europe before it.

A cataclysmic "Great Event" is approaching which will occur in or around the year 2014 and determine the course of the rest of the 21st century, according to a startling new thesis published this week.

Stunning wildlife images from around the world will be on show at Cambridge University's Museum of Zoology from June 19-July 24 as it hosts the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.

Aiden Cope is studying PPS (Politics, Psychology and Sociology) at Wolfson College. He's a mature student, who was financially independent from the age of 16, and qualifies for maximum support from Student Finance and from Cambridge.

Research in the arts and humanities deserves wider recognition for the broad range of palpable contributions it is making to the life of the nation, a new report suggests.

Thousands of school children will be helping Cambridge researchers this summer by taking part in the biggest ever survey of UK ladybirds.

Tropical fish alter their behaviour with an eye to the future, researchers at Cambridge have found. This is the first time such behaviour has been seen in any animals except humans.

Cambridge University Library has announced visionary plans to become a digital library for the world - following a £1.5m lead gift pledged by Dr Leonard Polonsky. Home to more than seven million books and some of the greatest collections in existence, including those of Newton and Darwin, the Library will begin digitising its priceless treasures to launch its Digital Library for the 21st Century.

The last letters of Captain Scott and his companions will return to public display as one of the world's most important collections of polar artefacts is officially opened by TRH The Earl and Countess of Wessex on June 8.

The new 20kW wind turbine is fitted with a revolutionary generator, known as the Brushless Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (BDFIG), which has been the subject of research at Cambridge over the past 10 years.

The University of Cambridge will take members of the public back and forward in time next week to look at the life of Oliver Cromwell and the future of spinal cord repair during two free afternoon lectures.

A 'dipstick' test that detects Hepatitis B within 30 minutes - and could be used in some of the world's poorest countries - has been given the green light for use in the European Union.

Efforts to understand the effects of ageing on the brain have been given a major boost with the announcement of a new £5M grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to Cambridge researchers. The funding has been awarded to a team from public health, clinical neurosciences and psychology at the University of Cambridge and scientists from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit who aim to understand how brain ageing in healthy people affects abilities like language and memory.

Common threads between the Jewish and Muslim attitudes towards dying, and the guidance they may offer those working in the caring professions, will come under scrutiny at a University of Cambridge symposium this week. The event, on Wednesday, May 26th, aims to explore how two traditions which are often portrayed as sharply distinctive handle the question of death, as well as associated issues such as funerary rites and concepts of an afterlife, in surprisingly similar ways.

A new survey of the boom in religious broadcasting in the Middle East reveals how the small screen is becoming an increasingly important battlefield in the struggle for people's hearts and minds.

Almost fifty years after Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring alerted the world to the impact of pesticides on the environment, 40 leading ecologists have contributed to a new book benchmarking the state of wildlife in Britain and Ireland.

Researchers at the Department of Veterinary Medicine have won a major international award for developing a new way to study respiratory diseases in cattle and other species without having to use live animals.

By helping them understand how these batteries behave under different conditions the new method - which involves Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy - could help researchers solve the fire safety problems that have dogged the development of these batteries. Lithium-ion battery technology has enabled the development of many electronic devices we now take for granted, such as laptop computers and mobile phones.

A remarkable archive of antique manuscripts which opens a window on to the experiences, hopes, fears and interests of people who lived during the 15th to 18th centuries has been put online.

Kat Suddaby, 20, is studying Natural Sciences at Pembroke College. She was brought up near Leeds and went to Boston Spa School.

Kettle's Yard has brought together the largest group of paintings by the American painter Agnes Martin to be seen in the UK for more than 15 years.

Mr Benthall is a partner at Charterhouse Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in London. He is also an active participant in the Cambridge business angel community, through his membership of the Cambridge Capital Group.