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…
Eye Saw It: The Psychology of Eye-Witness Memory – Mon 28 Feb @ 7pm
We use our memories every day, and can usually rely on them. However, psychological research has proven that our memories can be fallible. For example, we forget things, and our memories can be influenced by seemingly mundane things such as…
Small Talk – Application of Nanotechnology – Wed 9th at 6pm
Even though we may not be aware of it, nanotechnology is already embedded in many of the products that we make use of in our everyday lives. Did you know that your computer, phone, & Playstation have nanotechnology at their…
Responding to Flu Pandemics: The Challenge – Monday 31st Jan 7pm
Join us at Chambers Coffee House, 34 South Tay St for our first Cafe Science Dundee event of 2011. So what was all that flu pandemic about ? Was there really a global healthcare threat or was it just media…
Put a Cap on that Gas! – Storing CO2 Underground – Wednesday 12th Jan, 6pm
The Scottish Government has pledged to reduce Scotland’s CO2 emissions by 20% by 2020, which means we have to find some new tools to combat to put in to action. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one technology that could…
I am the boss of me – the psychology of self in early childhood – Thursday 25th November at 10am
Cafe Science Extra – Coffee Morning Science Every mother is familiar with the “terrible twos”, the age at which children begin to assert their independence (usually loudly, in the supermarket). Psychologists link this stage of development to the onset of…
Climate Change – Soils Will Make it Hot! Monday 25th October, 7pm
Over the last decade, a lot has been said about climate change, and much of the predictions about what will happen to our climate have not been very optimistic. What a lot of people don’t know is that soils, with…