How Often Should You Go To The Dentist – 7pm, Monday 28th November
Oral disease has had a significant impact on history. Dental pain has led to countries being invaded and techniques have been developed that are now routine such as general anaesthesia. Whilst oral health has improved most of you will have…
Parkinson’s Disease – Past, Present and Future – 6pm @ Wed 9th Nov
Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative brain disorder which particularly affects the elderly. Since the disease was first described almost 200 years ago, there is still no cure or any treatment that can slow down the disease. Over the last decade,…
Saving the Earth: In Your Garden, Farm and the Planet – 7pm on Thursday 10th Nov
The next Cafe Science tayport event will be at 7pm on Thursday 10th November 2011 as part of the excellent Dundee Science Festival. The venue is the newly opened Harbour Cafe on Broad Street, Tayport, DD6 9AJ. Dr. Ken Loades…
Magic Markers – Recent Developments in Fingerprinting – 7pm, Monday 31st Oct
Using fingerprints to identify people and criminals has been around for over 150 years. However, new fingerprinting techniques being developed in Dundee are at the forefront of revealing finger and hand marks on fabrics and clothing. This new technique will…
Computer Vision – Seeing the World Through Machines' Eyes. Wed 12th October @6pm
Computer vision is the science that studies how computers extract information from an image or video to solve some task by analysing its content. As an example, “Trophy” is a tank defence system that relies on cameras and computers to…
Is Your Computer Smarter Than You? – A Guide to Artificial Intelligence – Monday 26 Sep 2011
In the 1999 film The Matrix, one of the lead characters Morpheus tells us that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is: ‘A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines’. This has lead to many people being terrified of the concept…
Exercise and Training – When Less is More – Wed. 14 Sep 2011
We all know that exercise is good for us but few people do enough exercise to produce health benefits. One of the major reasons for non participation is time. But what if we told you that as little as 6-15 minutes…
Start of Brand New 2011-2012 Season! – Wednesday 14th September at 6pm
Start of the New Cafe Science Series Our first talk of the Cafe Science Extra series will take place at 6pm on Wednesday 14th September. The talk will be hosted in our regular venue, the delightful Infusions Coffee Shop, inside Dundee…
Cafe Science Summer Special! – Wed 10 Aug, 6pm
Now that summer is here (although you would be forgiven for not noticing because of all the fog here in Dundee), the Cafe Science Dundee Team is busy working away on the new 2011-2012 programme. But we know you can’t…
Season 4 of Cafe Science Dundee has come to an end!
Frank Sargent’s talk on biohydrogen on Monday 27th June was the last talk for season 4 of Cafe Science Dundee, and Cafe Science Extra. Everyone involved with organising cafe science would like to say a huge thank you to everyone…
Green, Green Gas at Home – Clean Energy From Bacteria – Mon 27 June at 7pm
Our last Cafe Science event of the season is nearly here! Everyone on the Cafe Science Team would like to thank you all for coming along to our talks and making this one of our most successful seasons. In this…
Why Can't People Stop Smoking? – 7pm June 16th – Harbour Cafe, Tayport
Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you and most smokers say they want to quit – but most fail. Indeed, many in the field suggest that tobacco smoking is more addictive than the addictions to most, if not all,…
Mud Glorious Mud – Understanding the Unseen, From Soils to Cities and Beyond…
Our last Cafe Science Extra event of the season is nearly here! Fear not, we still have one final Cafe Science Dundee talk at Chambers on 27th June before we take a break for the summer, but to wrap up…
Facing Up To Beauty – Is It Really Skin Deep? Monday 30th May @ 7pm
Standards of beauty vary over time, across cultures and between individuals. The “ideal” female body shape, for example, has changed considerably over the last 50 years. Despite this, we appear to agree that certain dimensions of facial appearance are attractive….
Foot Care and Diabetic Foot Amputation – Is It Time To Cut Your Losses?
This month Café Science Extra focuses on one of the most important and often overlooked parts of our bodies, our feet. Dr Bharti Rajput will be joining us to discuss how you should best take care of your feet, and…
Why Can't People Stop Smoking? Monday 25th April @ 7pm
Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you and most smokers say they want to quit – but most fail. Indeed, many in the field suggest that tobacco smoking is more addictive than the addictions to most, if not all,…
Universal Design – Including People With Disabilities, Wed 13 April @6pm
From microwaves to mobile phones to computers, we take technology for granted but how much do you know about how it is designed and developed? The public are becoming more involved in how technology should look and how it should…
Mood detectors: Can computers understand the way we feel?
What do you think of when you hear the term artificial intelligence? Outrageous Hollywood movies like machines taking over the world perhaps! In computing we are trying to teach machines to behave with at least as much intelligence as human…
New Ways to Treat Cancer – Ultrasound for Surgery and Drug Delivery
Monday 14th March at 7pm (talk rearranged due to November’s bad weather). Ultrasound is best known for helping doctors look inside the body, for example during pregnancy. However, with recent developments in electronics and nanotechnology it has become possible to…
The Trouble With Facebook – Wednesday 9th March @ 6pm
Online social networking applications are wildly popular. Facebook alone has around 500 million registered users. They have some good effects, such as helping people to maintain existing relationships and create new ones. And they can have some bad effects, such…