A list of all SciBar events in reverse chronological order

  • 18th March 2009 – Manor Park Science Day

    Manor Park School and Nursery Science Festival Following an article in The Knutsford Guardian covering his work with schools, Dave Thompson (founder of Knutsford SciBar) was invited to visit Manor Park School and Nursery.  It was decided to put on… continue reading

  • 2nd March 2009 – Digitising Sound

    Digitising sound – make a cheap violin sound like a Stradivarius Professor Patrick Gaydecki from Manchester University will, with the aid of his demonstration equipment, show us what becomes possible when you digitise sound and how, among other things, you… continue reading

  • 2nd February 2009 – Evolution Head to Tail

    Son of SciBar – Evolution Head to Tail Dave Thompson, founder of Knutsford SciBar, stood in for Mike Dunne* who was planned to introduce us to The Hiper Project at Rutherford Labs but was thwarted by heavy snow over much… continue reading

  • 10th January 2009 – Catalyst Museum

    A STEM Ambassador event at the Catalyst Museum Saturday Science Club Dave Thompson and Roger Gittins visited the Catalyst Chemical Museum’s Saturday Science Club to give a talk to the children on the history of rockets and the principles of… continue reading

  • 5th January 2009 – What Makes You Tick?

    A look at our many internal body clocks Professor Andrew Loudon from Manchester University introduced us to the many body clocks we have built in to ensure that our body is ready for what it needs to do “at the… continue reading

  • 1st December 2008 – The Effects of Space and Ageing on Human Physiology

    Professor Mario Narici from Manchester University led the discussion on the effects of space trips on the physiology of astronauts. Astronauts have the urgent requirement for physiotherapy treatment on return from space, if they are not to fracture a limb… continue reading

  • 3rd November 2008 – Emulating Biology to make Thin Film Solar Cells

    Professor Paul O’Brien from Manchester University returned to inform and entertain us, yet again. Paul led our very first SciBAr on the topic of Nanotechnology and returned to lead our discussion on what’s new in Nanotechnology and discuss with us… continue reading

  • 9th October 2008 – Knutsford Literary Festival

    Dave Thompson (Founder of Knutsford SciBAr) wrote a poem for the “Knutsford Literary Festival – Poetry Night” taking a Proton’s view of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Perhaps you can see why he focussed his life… continue reading

  • 6th, 7th October 2008 – Science Explosion, Liverpool

    Exhibition at the World Museum Liverpool Knutsford SciBAr recently attended the “Science Explosion” event run by the BA for children at The World Museum, Liverpool to launch the 2008 BA Festival 2008. Following on previous themes we took with us… continue reading

  • 6th October 2008 – Mining in Space

    What’s out there and how could we get it back here? Dr Benny Peiser from Liverpool John Moores University returns to inform and entertain us, yet again, leading the discussion on Mining in Space. We are talking about minerals in… continue reading

  • 5th October 2008 – Daresbury Science Festival

    Daresbury Science Festival – Exhibition at Daresbury Laboratories   Knutsford SciBAr set up stalls at Daresbury Science Festival where in a sizeable area we featured Dragon Visual Illusions and gave away dragons for the kids to make at home, Chaotic… continue reading

  • 1st September 2008 – Liquid Crystals

    What are they and why are they appearing everywhere? Professor Helen Gleeson from Manchester University helped us understand how something can be both a liquid and a crystal. Normally, we consider matter to have three distinct states: solid, liquid and… continue reading