A list of all SciBar events in reverse chronological order

  • 2nd April 2013 – Cloning

    Sarah Chan, deputy director of The University of Manchester Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation (which recently joined Manchester University’s Faculty of Life Sciences) will join us to lead our discussion. Projects that offer excellent collaboration between the University and… continue reading

  • 5th March 2013 – Manchester in the Global Industry of Science and Technology

    Professor John Pickstone of the University of Manchester recently helped arrange a series of ‘Interfaculty Lectures’ and, with friends in Manchester Metropolitan University and the City, he initiated and organised a major Manchester Histories Festival in March 2009. This proved… continue reading

  • 5th February 2013 {No Information Available}

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  • 8th January 2013 – Graphene

    Dr Aravind Vijayaraghavan discusses graphene with us. Graphene is the world’s first 2-dimensional material, and was made in Manchester for the very first time in 2004, by Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov. They were, of course, awarded the… continue reading

  • 4th December 2012 – Experiments You Can Do At Home

    Lorelly Wilson (Chair of the North West Branch of the British Science Association) will demonstrate experiments you can do at home to get your partner out of their armchair/garden shed or to entertain the grandchildren using common household products to… continue reading

  • 5th November 2012 – I Like The Way We Talk

    I like the way we talk: the effect of accent imitation on speech perception Dr Patti Adank describes her topic: “The UK has many regional accents, from Cockney spoken in London to Geordie in Newcastle, to Scottish accents such as… continue reading

  • 1st October 2012 – When Authors and Scientists Collide

    Dr Rob Appleby of Manchester University High Energy Physics department, CERN and Daresbury Cockroft Institute will lead our discussion. He is an accelerator physicist working mainly in theoretical accelerator physics and beam dynamics.  He is also involved with the Large… continue reading

  • 3rd September 2012 – The Arsonist, the Martian, the Cat and the Coke …. oh, and Dwain

    Tony Bristow, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield Have you ever wondered what links Martians to Olympic athletes? Cats to cocaine? Surgery to the Shroud of Turin? Pizza to forensic science? No? Well you will shortly…. In this discussion all will be revealed. We… continue reading

  • 24th July 2012 – Ecton Hill

    Visit to Ecton Hill – Bronze Age Copper Mine On a glorious summer evening in the middle of a very wet summer, Knutsford SciBar visited Ecton Hill copper mine. It was a very interesting evening with some eye opening concepts in… continue reading

  • 2nd July 2012 – Why Do We Need To Find That Pesky Higgs Particle?

    We are expecting news in early July about the discovery (or NOT) of the Higgs particle. It would seem a good time to look where science is up to prior to the event and thus be prepared to be able… continue reading

  • 11th June 2012 – The Brain’s Roles in Memory

    Dr. Penny Lewis from Manchester NARU (Neuroscience of Aphasia Research Unit) will talk about memory and the brain. What role does sleep play and what does the brain do when it is neither storing nor retrieving memories?      continue reading

  • 14th May 2012 – Water: Weird or What?

    Dr Jichen Li from Manchester will talk to us about the strange properties of one of the most common materials we see around us (particularly in the Manchester area). Liquid water has importance as a solvent, a solute, a reactant… continue reading