News for members of the science and technology group

Join U3A members on Monday 11^th March and explore science through a variety of fascinating talks:

• Martin Davies: A Plastic Ocean – Behind the Scenes
• Andrew Pontzen: What made our Universe?
• Jennifer Rogers: Living is a risky business

For more details and a booking form, click here.

In this update:

• Tickled to death - a presentation by Simon Brett
• U3A Science network annual meeting
• National U3A email newsletter

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Join U3A members on Monday October 15^th and explore science through a variety of fascinating talks:

• Stuart Eves: Exploring the Solar System
• Tim Spector: Twins, Microbiomes and Personalised Health
• Alison Woollard: Rise of the mutants

For more details and a booking form, click here.

An afternoon series of presentations at the Royal Institution on Monday, 19^th March 2017.

Tickets cost £21.50. Topics covered:

• Measuring colour
• Smart materials
• The unnatural nature of natural history museums

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An afternoon series of presentations at the Royal Institution on Monday, 16th October 2017. Tickets cost £21.50. Topics covered:

• Where are the aliens?
• How do we know anything? And how can we know things better?
• Wild at heart but captive in gut

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Wednesday, June 7, 2017 from 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

A U3A Royal Society Healthy Ageing Lecture 2017 in association with The European Alliance for the Brain, presented by Professor Ian Deary, Professor of Differential Psychology, Director, MRC Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology University of Edinburgh.

Professor Deary is an entertaining and informative speaker, familiar to some U3A members. He will explore the reasons why some people’s brains and thinking skills age better than others, as described in The Disconnected Mind, a research project which is helping to find some answers.

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An afternoon series of presentations at the Royal Institution on 16^th March 2017. Tickets cost £21.50. Topics covered:

• New technology for monitoring London's wildlife
• What does art have to do with science?
• Cryptography

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An afternoon series of presentations at the Royal Institution on October 10^th 2016. Tickets cost £20. Topics covered:

• Deeper than the Titanic, hotter than molten lead: exploring hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor
• Developmental language disorders: prevalence and impact
• Who owns outer space?

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This event is organised by the Third Age Trust.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016 from 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

U3A Royal Society ‘Staying Sharp’ Lecture in association with The European Alliance for the Brain.

Speaker: Professor Richard Faragher, ARCS DPhil FSB

• Chair, British Society for Research on Ageing
• Professor of Biogerontology, University of Brighton

Professor Faragher is an entertaining and informative speaker, familiar to some U3A members. He will explore the potential to transform health in later life, the current state of research and dispel false myths about ageing, among other topics - helping us to ‘seize the day’.

£15 including refreshments in The Royal Society’s City of London Rooms, The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG

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... the new science of astrobiology

Birkbeck's School of Science invites U3A to a special talk by Ian Crawford - Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology - during Science Week.

The talk takes place at 2.30–4pm on Monday, 11^th April 2016 at University Square Stratford, Salway Place, London E15.

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