For all events, please see this table with the full programme (in Bulgarian)
15 May 2021, Saturday
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Time and hall |
Event |
Audience |
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10.30 live online at DNA hall |
Roger Highfield reveals how early life repairs and organises itself, what this means for the future of pregnancy, and how we might solve IVF disorders and prevent miscarriages. |
general audience |
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11.00 live online at Laboratory hall and on Ratio’s Facebook page |
What are the many different values of seagrasses, why they are threatened, and what can be done to protect and help them – Per Moksnes has the answers. |
general audience |
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13.30 live online at DNA hall |
The Big Bang theory has many holes and omissions. Most notably it leaves unanswered the question: what banged? Prof. Joao Magueijo sheds light on this shady matter. |
general audience |
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15.00 live online at DNA hall |
Dr. Livia Tomova presents results from her research on the effects of social stress, social isolation and loneliness on the human brain. |
general audience |
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16.30 live online at DNA hall |
There are trillions of microbes living in our guts, transforming food molecules into metabolites and our bodies use these microbial waste products. Simon Spichak tells us how that happens. |
general audience |
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18.30 live online at Cosmos hall in partnership with А1 |
Former NASA astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger shares her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut and the road that has taken her dream to fruition in April 2010. |
general audience |
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20.00 live online at Cosmos hall in partnership with A1 |
Why I have hope for a better tomorrow? Join Dr. Jane Goodall and learn more about her early years in Gombe, the challenges she faced and why young people give her hope for the future of our planet. |
general audience |
16 May 2021, Sunday
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Time and hall |
Event |
Audience |
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10.30 DNA hall |
Archaeology with Asterix and Obelix Polish archaeologist and history teacher Marcin Gostkowski tells us how much archaeology we can find in Asterix and Obelix’s adventures brought to us by pop culture. |
children above the age of 7 |
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12.00 llive online at DNA hall |
Hungarian evolutionary biologist Dr. Orsolya Bajer-Molnárhow on how COVID-19 is one of many epidemics and on how we could make the many a lot less. |
general audience |
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13.30 DNA hall |
Dr. Javier Cristobo talks about the equipment, techniques and difficulties involved in diving research work based on the experience of 130 dives. |
general audience |
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16.30 live online at Cosmos hall in partnership with A1 |
Three women astronomers and a databank World-renowned astrophysicist Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell presents the stories of three eminent female astronomers who lived between 1750 and 2016 and today’s position of women in astronomy. |
general audience |
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16.30 live online at DNA hall |
Glaciers – perfect thermometers Lea Hartl, scientist at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, gives an overview of current glacier recession in the Alps. |
general audience |
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18.00 live online at DNA hall |
What is sea-level rise and what does it mean? This talk with Robert Nicholls will explore the magnitude, sources and resulting impacts of sea-level rise and the potential responses for possible adaptation. |
general audience |