Catch all the big lectures from the National Science Festival in Grahamstown
In 2015 we brought you some of the excitement of the National Science Festival to your computer screen. Visit www.scifest.org.za to see the programme and learn more about the speakers.
Here are a few of the talks in no particular order.
Scifest Africa 2016 – More videos will be added daily
Here are some of the lectures from Scifest Africa 2016
Ella Al-Shamahi National Geographic
Highlights from Sascha Ott’s Science Shows De Physikanten
Dr Graham Walker’s Science Show
Professor William Edmonson NIA, USA
Jim Adams NASA – Solving the technological challenges of the Journey to Mars
Lucy Hunt – The Science of Relationships
Dr Stephen Ashworth – Kitchen Chemistry
The official Opening of Scifest 2016
Clarice Greyling – Her Science Expo Project
NASA Astronauts Cady Coleman and Don Pettit answers questions about being in space.
Adriana Marais, UKZN Centre for Quantum Technology: Quantum what what
Jim Adams, NASA, USA Technology: How investing in space is changing your life on Earth
Revealing secrets of the universe: NASA’s missions to the dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto
Kelly Jardim, St Andrew’s School, Welkom Improving speed and accuracy in reading
Meet a Mars rover driver
Dr Catherine Coleman, NASA Astronaut Office, USA Space exploration: What’s next for NASA
FameLab Finals at SciFest 2015
Jim Adams, NASA, USA The life of a photon @ 13:00 18 March 2015
Panel Discussion: NASA: Setting science alight @ 18:30 18 March 2015
Dr Wanda L. Diaz Merced, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA – Mu @ 13:00 19 March 2015
Dr Claudia Alexander, NASA – The Rosetta Mission: To land on a moving comet @ 18:30 19 March 2015
Professor Robin Grimes, Imperial College London, UK Learning to live with our defects: https://youtu.be/VOYMGKvaetQ
Dr Ellen Stofan, NASA, USA Looking outward, inward and homeward: NASA science and you: https://youtu.be/Tdn0to6Axx4
Dr Ellen Stofan speaks at the Official Launch of Scifest 2015.
Breaking down barriers in the STEM field
If I told you science has limits, would you believe me?
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