Free science and nature events, page 7 of 14

AMDC Seminar Series: Dr. Lorena Saelices, UT Southwestern, Medical Center

Amyloid Mechanism and Disease Center · Dell Butcher Hall

A bit about The Saelices Laboratory: The Saelices Laboratory is devoted to the study of systemic amyloid diseases—disorders caused by the misfolding of specific proteins that aggregate into amyloid…

Frontiers of Cosmology Lecture

Physics · University Theatre, Riverside, CA 92507, USA

Let There Be Light: The Observational Quest for the First Galaxies

Compton Lectures: Luca Grandi “The 85% We Cannot See: The Long, Tireless Quest for Dark Matter”

Physical Sciences Division · Kersten Physics Teaching Center, Room 106

Join us for a free public lecture series celebrating 50 Years of Discovery at the Enrico Fermi Institute of UChicago. Attendees can join in person or virtually.

Pursuit of Discovery: An Afternoon with Marie Curie and Lise Meitner - Digital Theater & Science Talks

MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research · Building 54, 100, 21 AMES ST, Cambridge, MA 02139

What if you could hear the origin story of radioactivity and nuclear fission from the scientists who discovered them?

SPC Seminar – Space – Domenico Trotta (ESA)

Space Physics, Atmospheric physics, Plasma Physics · Blackett Building, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Title: Particle acceleration in the Heliosphere, from its most extreme shocks to its quietest times

Branco Weiss Lecture 2026 - "Matter flows and flows matter - from particles to oceans!"

ETH Zurich

Lapworth Lecture - Unlocking the Secrets of Vietnam’s Past Climate: Insights from Stalagmites

University of Birmingham · Aston Webb Dome & Semi-Circle, Birmingham, B15 2TT, and online

Lapworth Lecture by Dr Chloe Riviera. Unlocking the Secrets of Vietnam’s Past Climate: Insights from Stalagmites.

What Did Viruses Ever Do For Us? The Evolution of “Good” Viruses - John Carr is Professor of Plant Virology, Department of Plant Sciences and President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

University of Cambridge · Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry

Viruses generally get a very bad press. Deservedly so. Viruses cause serious epidemics and pandemics in humans and threaten food security by causing crop and livestock diseases.

Stanford Energy Seminar | More Value per Tonne: Rethinking How We Use Rock | Tiziana Vanorio, Stanford University

Precourt Institute for Energy · Shriram Center, 104, 443 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305

Rocks may seem ordinary and ubiquitous, but they are the foundation of the geomaterials that underpin modern society—from cement in our built environment to the critical minerals in our smartphones…

Movies That Matter: LIGO Documentary "Cosmic Coda"

California Institute of Technology · Beckman Auditorium, Caltech, Pasadena

Caltech proudly presents Cosmic Coda (Astrophysics for Dairy Cows), a film by MJ Doherty about the teamwork required to develop LIGO over 40 years (minus a 30-year hole in the middle). This…

Near-Visible Integrated Photonics on Thin-Film Lithium Tantalate

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies · Zoom (Virtual)

Zoom Link:

What made us ‘hunter-gatherers of words’?

University College London · IAS Common Ground, Room G11, Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL Bloomsbury Campus, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom

Explore the origins of human language at this interdisciplinary UCL workshop, examining the roles of cooperation, gender, childhood, kinship and ritual, followed by a book launch.

MechE Colloquium: Bubble nucleation and related wettability effects: from fundamentals to durable interfaces

EPFL · BM 5202

Abstract: Bubble nucleation on heated surfaces is strongly governed by the interaction between thermodynamic conditions, surface morphology and wettability.

Engineering Bound States in the Continuum for Lithium Tantalate Photonics in the Visible Spectrum

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Speaker: Md Jahidul Hoq Emon

Grad Student Lunch Seminar: From Redlines to Ant Trails, with Sylvana Ross

Cornell University · Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures, CCC Building, 3rd Floor, 235 Garden Ave, Ithaca, NY 14853

Sylvana Ross, a fourth-year graduate student in Entomology, will present dissertation research on how ants in historically disinvested neighborhoods show measurable physiological and molecular…

Searching the Genetic Bases of Human Brain Evolution

Harvard University

A presentation from 2026–2027 Helen Putnam Fellow Lucía F. Franchini

The End of Mathematics? The AI Crisis

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

We are at a key moment in the history of mathematics. Artificial intelligence is beginning to tackle research problems once thought impossible to solve or to demand years of human ingenuity.

Can We Take a Picture with One Pixel? From Ultrafast Imaging to Big Data Challenge

University of Kent · Chipperfield Lecture Theatre

Dr Chao Wang (University of Kent) The Kent Physics Centre runs a series of evening talks open to the public. The talks are mostly physics and astronomy related, but sometimes we branch out into other…

CROPPS Seminar: Technology Agnosticism

Cornell University

A Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems seminar presented by Katie Dentzman Nov 10, 2026 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Jamie Rankin - Science at the Stellar Shores: Sampling the Realms Between the Sun and Stars

University of Rhode Island · Edwards Hall

Princeton researcher Jamie Rankin delves into the history and science of interstellar exploration through the vantage point of the Voyager spacecrafts—surveying surprises, discoveries, curiosities…