Topics and titles

Students will be well aware of issues currently hitting the headlines. Café Sci gives them the chance to turn their concerns or interests into informed discussion. The starting point for each discussion is the scientific fact behind the headline, making every café an opportunity for learning.

A few examples to get the creative juices flowing. 

  • Drugs and sport
  • The physics of ‘Dr Who'
  • Sex and evolution
  • Will robots have feelings?
  • Science and religion
  • Do boys and girls think differently?
  • Will men have babies?
  • GM trials: not so jolly Gene Giants?
  • To infinity & beyond!
  • Prime numbers and secret messages
  • Is HIV winning the battle?
  • Cosmology and the very early universe
  • Are there parallel universes?
  • Black holes - what and where are they?
  • The biggest bang!
  • Science - from inspiration to profit
  • The agony of anti-cancer drugs
  • Are statistics misused in the media?
  • Rockets away!
  • Is your Nan a guinea pig?
  • Can numbers really be fun?
  • Detonations and explosions
  • The chemistry of poison
  • Did life on Earth begin on Earth?
  • Global warming: are we heading for meltdown or an ice age?
  • How do they get the holes into crumpets?