Tuesday 21 June 2022 – Why Wild Bees Matter Our wild bees and other pollinators are so important, but they are still the unsung heroes of the environment, gardens and countryside and continue to decline in number and range. The talk will…
Tuesday 17th May 2022 How the world of the very small can help us tackle big problems The foundations of quantum physics were laid out 100 years ago and initiated a Quantum Revolution. The First Quantum Revolution saw scientists such…
Tuesday 19 April 2022 Tim Littlewood Natural History Museum London – The Harwell Connection Further details to follow
Tuesday 15th March 2022 Rhiannon Foster – Davies, Dentistry Dentistry for dummies! A whistle stop tour of modern dentistry and how we got here. The vast majority of the population have visited a dentist at least once in their lifetimes.…
Tuesday 15th February 2022 – Dr Rachel Ward, GP – General Practice in Covid Times” Long gone are the days of crowded waiting rooms at your local GP Practice where an elderly person sat next to a child with a fever and…
Tuesday 18th January 2022 Sally Povolotsky – Plants Saving the Planet and Living Wall Carbon Sequestering Sally is the Director of Oxfordshires Living Laboratory ‘Living Oxford’ based in East Hendred and recently elected County Councillor for Hendreds & Harwell Division…
Tuesday 14th December 2021 Real-zero – embracing ubiquitous resources and solutions” Was COP26 a good COP or a bad COP? There is some consensus that the Glasgow conference offered practical solutions and good pledges but, in counterbalance, there are significant…
Tuesday 16th November 2021, Hearing and Audiology – Hannah Gray Hearing is often a sense which we take for granted until something starts going wrong. For a person born with hearing, it is essential for everyday life. Most of our…
Tuesday 19th October 2021 Mike Landy COP26: humanity’s moment of truth?’ “Code red for humanity” declared the Secretary General of the UN following publication in August of the latest IPCC report on the status of climate science, which drew from…
To be added to the mailing list and receive the online joining instructions please email CafeSci@didcotfirst.org Tuesday 21st September 2021 Professor Chris Lintott Where, what and who: Progress in Astronomy’s Big Questions In this talk, Chris Lintott (BBC Sky at…
Tuesday 17th August 2021 – Cafe Scientifique online A routine eye test? The technology helping us look after our general health through the eyes. Most of us take for granted our sight and only book an eye test when we…
Tuesday 20th July 2021 My Nuclear Life, Ian Adsley I think many of you will know I organise most of the speakers for the Didcot Cafe Sci. I’ve always kept a reserve talk in the event that for some reason…
Tuesday 15th June 2021 Peter Allen – Black Holes Dr Peter Allan is a space scientist and astronomer working at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL). He did a PhD at Manchester University on the subject of black hole models of…
Tuesday 18th May 2021 Magnetic Attraction: a History and Description of Magnetism From prehistory to the modern day magnetism has fascinated mankind. Since Thales first written discovery of the properties of lodestone, the Chinese invention of the compass needle…
Tuesday 20th April 2021 Dr Chris Pearson ARIEL and ALIEN Worlds: Enabling planetary science across light-years Less than 30 years ago the only planets known to exist were those found within our own Solar System. From the first confirmed discovery…
Tuesday 16th March 2021 Hugh Warwick Hedgehogs – why we should worry, and what we can do The nation’s favourite wild mammal, nature icon, animal – the hedgehog always tops the polls – is under threat. Startling population declines have…
Tuesday 16th February 2021 Safe to Breathe? – A Short History of Gas Detection’ Speaker – Martin Willett Martin’s talk will touch upon a historical point of view, exploring the very old methods (canaries, Davy lamps, etc) as well as…
Dr Geof Haigh, Technical Consultant – FiMoS Ltd Tuesday 19th January 2021 – 5G: What is it and Why all the fuss?” What is 5G Mobile? How is it different from 4G (or 3G or 2G)? Why is it suddenly…
Tuesday 15th December 2020 Dr Tom Hart, Penguinologist, University of Oxford – Counting in the wild – using drones, remote cameras and citizen science to observe penguins in a changing world. Tom Hart uses a variety of approaches to study…
Tuesday 17th November – Richard Bull, ‘Radiation-Hazards & Benefits’ If you would like to receive joining instructions for this online talk – please email cafesci@didcotfirst.org Introduction to radioactivity and radiation, explaining some of the terms like half-life and radiation dose…