A list of all SciBar events in reverse chronological order

  • 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

  • 7th July 2008 – Consciousness: What is it? How Might it Work?

    Professor John Jefferys from Birmingham University helped us understand what we know about consciousness. Of course some things are not yet known but good progress is being made. Among other areas, Prof Jefferys has been researching how the brain solves continue reading

  • 2nd July 2008 – Daresbury Rocket Competition

    Daresbury Rocket Competition at Chester Racecourse In July 2008 Knutsford SciBAr entered several rockets, made by various SciBArians, into a competition to see which rocket could carry a raw egg the furthest without breaking the egg. The winner was Graham continue reading

  • 2nd June 2008 – Lindow Man

    A Special SciBar at The Manchester Museum The SciBar included a private visit to the Museum to view the “Lindow Man” exhibit, the naturally preserved body of an Iron Age man which will be in Manchester from April 2008 until continue reading

  • 12th May 2008 – String Theory for Dummies

    Dr Richard Battye from Manchester University and Jodrell Bank led our discussion on String Theory. We have touched on String Theory in several topics in the past but this dealt with the basics of the theory itself. We are apparently continue reading

  • 7th April 2008 – From DNA to Organism

    Could Humans grow new limbs? Professor Enrique Amaya from Manchester University discussed how DNA makes organisms and how amphibian embryos have an incredible ability to heal following amputations, which is one of the primary reasons why they have been used continue reading

  • 3rd March 2008 – How Does the Brain Keep Us Awake During the Day…

    … and how does it keep us thin? Dr Denis Burdakov from Cambridge University will help us understand how the brain keeps us awake and conscious during the day. It was until recently mysterious why in the sleep disorder narcolepsy continue reading

  • 4th February 2008 – Bringing Nuclear Fusion Down to Earth

    Chris Carpenter and Chris Warrick from Culham, the UK’s primary Fusion Research Centre helped us look into Nuclear Fusion (using the same processes that make the sun hot to create electricity on earth). Apart from the difficulties in creating a continue reading

  • 7th January 2008 – Synthetic Biology and Biological Computing

    Dr. Martyn Amos from Manchester Metropolitan University will help us look into the technologies of biological computing and how we can now adjust biological “creatures” to do things never previously created in the history of life. In the living cell continue reading

  • 3rd December 2007 – Old and New Technologies

    Old and New Technologies and the Spread of the Minoan Civilisation in Crete Dr. Ina Berg from Manchester University helped us look into the technologies of pottery manufacture in ancient Crete. Her research uses X-ray analysis to determine how the continue reading