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Fantastic Forests
Stephen Penny | added on Nov 04, 2011 | United Kingdom
Celebrate National Tree Week with staff from Forest Research and Forestry Commission Scotland. Enjoy a range of hands on activities celebrating the 2011 International Year of Forests. Activities relate to tree seeds but also to photosynthesis and carbon capture processes.
Cafe Scientifique
Heather Jarrett | added on Nov 04, 2011 | United States
With a global population of more than 7 billion, we face an urgent need for a renewable-based energy economy. Dr. Patricia DeMarco, Director of the Rachel Carson Institute in the School of Sustainability and the Environment at Chatham University, will speak.
Chai and Why? Astrochemistry: Exploring the outer space laboratory
Arnab Bhattacharya | added on Nov 04, 2011 | India
Amazing chemical reactions happen in clouds of gas and dust that lie between the stars. These molecular clouds are billions of km across with cold atoms and molecules well-spaced and hit by cosmic rays. How do we know what molecules are there? What kind of chemical reactions dominate when it is so cold and
rare?
Chemistry Shows
Peter Hollamby | added on Nov 02, 2011 | International
Uncover some of the secrets of chemical reactions – especially those of a spectacular kind! Exciting shows that promises to blow the lid of Chemistry’s possibly dusty image.
Chemical Light and Forensic Chemistry
Carmen García-ruiz | added on Nov 02, 2011 | Spain
This activity will show how to obtain light by means of chemical reactions based on luminiscent phenomena and pyrotechnics reactions