Contrary to the preconception that mathematics is purely designed to torture school pupils and has no relevance to the “real world”, Dr Fordyce Davidson will discuss how mathematical tools are being used to address some of the most fundamental challenges…
Auroras (northern lights) are one of our planet’s natural wonders. Usually a polar phenomenon, they are visible from the Dundee area only a couple of times each decade, but this winter our chances of seeing them are significantly better than…
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…
It is now widely acknowledged that increased consumption of a Western-type high calorie diet, along with a sedentary lifestyle, has contributed to a marked increase in the global prevalence of obesity. In particular, eating foods which are high in fat…
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…
The genetic blueprint for our bodies contains over 3 billion letters, and we have just started to unravel the meaning of these genomic instructions. With many companies offering to analyse your genomes, both for ancestry and health related purposes, and…
Cystic fibrosis is the most common inherited disease in the UK affecting over 10,000 people in the UK. According to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, about 1 in 25 of the population in the UK carry a mutation in a gene…
‘My brain might be 70 years old but who I really am isn’t!’ What is the relationship between a person and the brain? Need we think of ageing as impairment just because mental processes are subject to age-related change? This…
Traditionally, the identification of offenders from photographic or video evidence has focussed on facial features. However, criminals are increasingly ensuring that their face does not appear in physical evidence. However, in 2007 a new scientific technique was accepted in the…
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…