Science and Technology Meeting

Around 90% of over-65's take prescribed medication (often several), and, for at least some of these patients, the combination remains appropriate, year in, year out. However, this cannot be assumed,[...]

The 'One Health' concept, a global initiative developed over the last 20 years, involving a wide range of scientific disciplines and approaches, seeks to integrate human and veterinary medicine, food,[...]

Over 7000 extra-Solar planets have already been located, in ca. 5000 planetary systems, thanks to space science missions designed and launched to detect and characterise them.  The ultimate prize would[...]

Our speaker this month, Michael Wright, convenor of the High Wycombe u3a Science group, was placed on the liver transplant waiting list in 2022.  This talk is based on what[...]

It was around 150 years ago that Lewis Carroll published ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’, his fantastical tale of a strange world where everything is reversed, as if in a[...]

For over a century, the ultimate recognition of ground-breaking scientific research has been the award of a Nobel Prize. But there’s another series of annual awards, less prestigious but no[...]

Geology, so they say, is as old as the hills, but it's a very broad field, and the planet we call home is blessed with some very odd geological quirks.[...]