The New Age of Renewable Energy - Monday 24th November 2014, 7pm

Dr David Rodley from the University of Dundee Centre for Renewable Energy will speculate on how the energy landscape in Scotland and the wider UK might look in the future. Will carbon become the new currency as extreme targets for…

CAFÉ SCIENCE TAYPORT – BIOFUELS: SPINNING STRAW INTO BLACK GOLD - Thursday 6th November 2014, 6pm

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our cars and airplanes ran on a fuel that reduced CO2 emissions while promoting food production? Find out the latest from Dundee’s cutting-edge research into biofuels. Professor Claire Halpin’s team take ‘second-generation’ biofuels to the…

Cafe Science Series 2013/2014

Our Cafe Science Series for  2013/2014 has now come to an end. If you missed out on any of the discussions, or you just want to watch them again, we have videos available online for most of the programme. You can…

Summer Special: A Tale Of Two Penguins - Wednesday 6th August 2014, 7pm

The D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum at the University of Dundee holds two penguin specimens that each have extraordinary stories to tell, connecting Dundee’s whaling industry with pioneering Antarctic exploration. Find out how these penguins came to be in D’Arcy Thompson’s…