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Omega-3 fats: Can they really make children smarter?
Food manufacturers have been rushing to add omega-3 fats to their products. With claims that ‘clever milk’, ‘the think drink’ and ‘brain storm cereal bars’ can improve children’s learning and concentration, this Cafe Science will sort the fact from the…
Cafe Science Dundee – third series planned
Cafe Science Dundee has just finished its second successful year of talks and discussions. We are taking a quick break over summer, and we will start up again in September. But if you are wondering where you will get your…
Sexy Biophysics: Exploiting Ultrasound for Gene Therapy. 7pm 29th June
Getting the right molecules (usually pharmaceuticals) to the right place, and at the right time is the critical problem in drug delivery. There are many challenging barriers to be overcome along the route to the target, which is usually a…
Autism and Imitation: Nurturing Joy – 25th May
Is it really true that people with autism can’t interact with other people? Absolutely not. However, it is true that the world that our society asks them to live in can make it harder for them to feel comfortable interacting….
Harnessing the power of the sea – 7pm Monday 27th April
Renewable energy is rarely out of the news, and extracting energy from the sea is a particularly high priority with the Scottish and UK governments. The waters around the UK are a rich potential source of electricity for future generations. …
The Great Game – looking for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Forty eight years of searches for radio emissions from advanced civilisations have found nothing. The searches are getting much more powerful and it also seems more and more likely that there are other Earths like our own. But the Fermi…
Global Warming and Flooding in Scotland
Once the preserve of a minority, environmental concerns have captured the public interest. Films like An Inconvenient Truth have done a lot to inform the public of the immediacy of the threats. However, climate change is resulting in different effects…
Start of new season!
On Monday 29th September we will kick off our second season of CafeScienceDundee talks. On the Monday Dr Christopher Connolly will be presenting Talking Neurons: the importance of learning to listen. As always the talk is aimed at the public…
Summer talk @Sensation
Cafe Science is still on a break and will return to Borders for its second season, starting in Sept, 2008. However, we have a ‘special’ at Sensation in Dundee, with Prof Klaus Zuberbuhler from Scottish Primate Research Centre. He will…
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