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Category: Science


A promenade through science and philosophy (SCE 01)

Botany (SCE 03)

Building the human brain (Spring term) (SCE 04)

Building the human brain (Spring term) (SCE 04(z))

Computers, brains and AI (Spring term) (SCE 05)

Computers, brains and AI (Spring term) (SCE 05(z))

Cosmology (SCE 06)

DNA and identity (SCE 07)

Eat well, live longer, live well (SCE 08)

Eat well, live longer, live well (SCE 08(z))

Emerging science and technology discussion group (SCE 09)

Geology group (SCE 10)

Geology group (SCE 10(z))

Great Physicists (SCE 11)

Introduction to weather and climate (SCE 12(z))

Our earth, yesterday, today, and tomorrow (Spring term) (SCE 13)

Our earth, yesterday, today, and tomorrow (Spring term) (SCE 13(z))

Space telescopes, their images and what they tell us (Spring term) (SCE 14)

The energy landscape (SCE 15)

The life of stars (SCE 16(z))

The material world (Spring term) (SCE 17)

The nuclear option (Spring term) (SCE 18)

The Pale Blue Dot (SCE 19)

The Physics of Time and Space (SCE 20)

The Physics of Time and Space (SCE 20(z))

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