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…