Cafe Scientifique Hong Kong

06/12/2023

A big thank you to Dr. Csaba Hefler from CUHK for his fascinating talk, "A Closer Look Into the Flight of Dragonflies," this past Monday, 4 December at Cafe 8. Dr. Hefler discussed the amazing flight capabilities of dragonflies, the interesting and exacting methodologies required for this research, and the scientific and commercial implications of his work.

Please save the date for Monday, 8 January for the next Cafe Scientifique Hong Kong meeting. We'll announce the details of that event shortly!

06/11/2023

Thanks to today’s speaker Dr. Nadia Haidr for an enjoyable talk and to our attendees for the good questions. Lots of cool photos, facts and stories about the wonderful seabirds of Antarctica and Patagonia 🇦🇶 🇦🇷 🐧 🧊 See you next month!

03/11/2023

Don’t forget about Monday’s Cafe Museum CAFE8. 7pm. Register for free at the Eventbrite link below

29/10/2023

We will hold a meeting next Monday, Nov 6 at 7pm at Museum CAFE8 in Central!

Please join us to hear about "Seabird Biology and Fieldwork in Patagonia and the Icy Continent" from CUHK biologist, Dr. Nadia Haidr, as she takes us on a tour of Antarctica to talk about penguins and their predators, the skuas. Tickets are available on the Eventbrite link below:

https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/seabird-biology-and-fieldwork-in-patagonia-and-the-icy-continent-tickets-748019886617?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

03/10/2023

We're back! Many thanks to everyone who attended last night's talk by Dr. Michael Pittman from the School of Life Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for his fantastic presentation, "Latest Insights into the Maya from New Frontiers in Archaeological Science," which explored exciting new applications for lasers on archaeology. Dr. Pittman discussed how lasers developed for palaeobiology and the study of dinosaur fossils have revealed a huge amount of otherwise hidden information in Mayan archaeological sites.

17/09/2023

Tickets for Dr. Michael Pittman's upcoming talk, "Latest Insights into the Maya from New Frontiers in Archaeological Science," are now available on Eventbrite. Please join us on Monday, October 2 for the first in-person Cafe Scientifique event post-Covid.

https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/latest-insights-into-the-maya-from-new-frontiers-in-archaeological-science-tickets-720732118167?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

*Please note that we will not be sending out a separate email for this event.

Come hear about the intersection of archaeology and palaeobiology at Cafe Scientifique's first in-person event since December 2019!

14/09/2023

Cafe Scientifique is coming back! We are pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Pittman of the School of Life Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong will present a talk, "Latest Insights into the Maya from New Frontiers in Archeological Science" on Monday, October 2 at Cafe 8. More details to follow, and registration for this event will open early next week.

03/05/2023

With things back to normal, we’ll be back in August 2023!

08/06/2021

Cyber Cafe Scientifique welcomed Dr. Joe Michalski from the Department of Earth Sciences and Laboratory for Space Research at HKU on Monday, June 7, for a fascinating webinar on "A New Space Race" and what lies ahead in science for Mars exploration.

Dr. Michalski's talk has been uploaded to the Cafe Scientifique YouTube channel. Please note that the video can be viewed through this link but is otherwise unlisted on YouTube.

On May 14th, China became the second nation to successfully land and operate a rover on Mars. The Zhurong Rover, which will explore the plains of Utopia Plan...

07/06/2021

Thank you all for joining Joe's talk on Mars tonight. I hope you all agree that it was very interesting.

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24/05/2021

China made history becoming the second nation to land a rover on the surface of Mars. The robotic science laboratory will explore the plains of Utopia Planitia over a 90 day primary mission. What sorts of geological observations and testable hypotheses lay ahead for mission scientists?

06/04/2021

Cyber Cafe Scientifique welcomed Dr. Sophie Valkenburg from the Pasteur Institute Hong Kong on Monday, April 5 for the second part of our 3-part series on Covid-19.

Dr. Valkenburg's talk, "Immunology in the Era of Covid-19," has been uploaded to the Cafe Scientifique YouTube channel for those who missed the event or would like to watch her talk again. Please note that, like Dr. Fred Leung's talk, the video can be viewed through this link but is otherwise unlisted on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/XmFUtgVkSyY

(A special thanks to everyone who patiently waited for our technical difficulties at the start of the talk to get resolved!)