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June 18, 2015

Glasgow Science Festival Event: ‘Single-Pixel Camera’

The single-pixel camera – in what way is it a step forward from cameras with millions of pixels? Would you want it in your next smartphone? Scientists from the University of Glasgow’s Optics group...

Features / Physical Sciences

June 17, 2015

Glasgow Science Festival Event: ‘In the Footsteps of Eddington: Proving Einstein Right with a Solar Eclipse’

2015 is the International Year of Light, but it is also the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity; a theory that has resolutely stood the test of time and still provides us...

Features / Social Sciences

June 16, 2015

Glasgow Science Festival Event: ‘Café Sci: Looking for Light’

“What do fiction and science have in common? An evening of musing by Pippa Goldschmidt and Professor Martin Hendry.” At Mono on Wednesday evening, Café Scientifique hosted Pippa Goldschmidt, acclaimed author and ex-astronomer, and...

Features / Social Sciences

June 13, 2015

Glasgow Science Festival Event: ‘Moon’

Two astronomers and a clinical psychologist walk into a cinema… Glasgow Film Theatre was the venue for a special Glasgow Science Festival screening of Duncan Jones’ 2009 sci-fi film Moon, where protagonist Sam Bell...

Physical Sciences / Snippets

June 13, 2015

The ‘Coldest Case on Record’: The First Human Murder

Ida Emilie Steinmark takes a close-up look at a broken skull and dives down into the dark, deep human past.

Features / Social Sciences

June 12, 2015

Glasgow Science Festival Event ‘Vision, Perception & Illusion’

Are we just living in the Matrix? How can you be sure everything you perceive isn’t just a hallucination? Are you actually reading this sentence or merely think you are reading it?

Life Sciences / Snippets

June 8, 2015

Opah fish found to be ‘warm-blooded’

Not for the first time, Mother Nature has blown our expectations out of the water (if you will pardon the pun). Looking at the moon-shaped and colourful opah, our first thought is perhaps not...

Features / Social Sciences

June 8, 2015

Glasgow Science Festival Event ‘The Perfect Meal’

Put simply, stop reading Yelp! reviews before you hit a new restaurant. Just go.

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