Science and Technology Meeting

We’ve all heard of planets, stars, and galaxies, but their relative sizes, and especially the vast distances between them, can be difficult for us non-astronomers to grasp. In this talk,[...]

Mention the information super-highway, and we automatically think of the internet. But actually, messages were already being sent back and forth around the world, by wire, as long ago as[...]

Why are viruses so successful at replicating themselves, how do their hosts react to infection, and how do they evolve to outwit our best efforts to combat them? Never have[...]

It was back in 1950 that the great Alan Turing published his ground-breaking analysis of the principles of AI, embodied in what became known as the ‘Turing Test’ – could[...]

In the modern world, we often feel that our daily lives are governed by the relentless ticking of a thousand clocks, all clamouring for their share of our precious time.[...]

Mike Trevethick, of Thanet U3A, tells the fascinating story of Dr John Snow, the pioneering London physician who in 1854, faced with yet another of the recurring cholera epidemics which[...]

Zoonoses are infectious diseases, caused by viruses, bacteria or other pathogens, that are transmitted from animals (livestock, pets and wildlife) to man either directly or through vectors or food. In[...]

The legendary tales of Archimedes and his bath, and Newton’s encounter with the apple, may only be fictional, but there have been plenty of less well-known ‘Eureka’ moments like these[...]

Mary B Lyons (Yateley u3a) shares with us some of her fascinating reminiscences of working in a pathology lab in the 1960's - not just blood and guts, but also[...]

Leigh Edwards (Exeter u3a, and former National u3a Science Subject Advisor) looks back at some of the truly amazing discoveries, inventions, and achievements in science and technology over the past[...]

Back in the 1990s, a new phrase entered our vocabulary – ‘Frankenstein Food’ – the emotive term given by the media to products, made from genetically-modified plants & animals, which[...]