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?
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...
Glasgow Science Festival Event ‘The Perfect Meal’
Put simply, stop reading Yelp! reviews before you hit a new restaurant. Just go.
Reclaiming the Human Future: Energy, Engineering and Ideas of Progress
250 years on from James Watt’s invention of the separate steam condenser, Professor Colin McInnes talks about energy’s past, present and future. Andrew Denman reports.
Glasgow Science Festival Launch Party
Gin, comedy, cake, poetry and live music… it can only be the Glasgow Science Festival 2015 launch party!
The Higgs boson, the origin of mass and the nature of space
Adrian Buzatu talks about the Higgs boson discovery at CERN and what it implies for the origin of mass and the nature of space.
Jungle Genomics
The ability to point a device at a life form and identify it is a long-running Sci-Fi trope, but is it now one step closer to reality? Whilst remote sensing is still a dream,...
theGIST Science Pub Quiz
This Wednesday, the 27th, theGIST will be hosting another science pub quiz – naturally, it’ll be the place to be.
