Science and Technology Meeting

Ever since the dog was first domesticated, thousands of years ago, our ancestors exploited its acute sense of smell for tracking and hunting.  More recently, we’ve enlisted them as crime-busters,[...]

As this year’s seasonal flu vaccination campaign gets under way, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about.  After all, the dire warnings of rampant winter flu outbreaks[...]

by Mike Trevethick (Thanet u3a). In 19th century London, everybody's sewage, as well as the city's commercial waste, was simply dumped into the river Thames. As a result, deadly diseases[...]

When a health professional takes a sample of blood or urine, have you ever wondered what happens to it when it’s sent off to the lab for analysis? What are[...]

by Dr Andrew Lacey (Lancaster University). Best-remembered today for his invention of the miners’ safety lamp, Davy had many other claims to fame, including the isolation of no fewer than[...]

by Ian Hawker (East Suffolk u3a). The intermittent and unpredictable nature of wind and solar has long been used to justify our continued reliance on fossil fuels to generate our[...]

by Dr Mike Hodges (Kingsbridge u3a). Of the 1.6 million new cars registered in the UK last year, around 17% were EVs, a record high, up from 12% the year[...]

by Leigh Edwards (Exeter u3a). As the Earth’s ultimate energy source, nuclear fusion – the process that powers the Sun – has long been touted as the ‘Holy Grail’ of[...]

by Emily Magkourilou (University of Sheffield). If you’ve been watching David Attenborough’s BBC series ‘Wild Isles’, you’ll already know that our woodlands are home to largely unseen, but amazingly complex[...]

by David Youll (Basingstoke u3a). After a long career in IT, David now spends his spare time doing research to broaden his interest in galaxies and quasars (he has a[...]