How can we eat healthily? In 2007 we welcomed Jeya Henry, one of the world’s leading nutritionists, to help us cut through the conflicting messages. He will be back to update us on what we know…

Teams of architecture students from Oxford Brookes University have been working on plans to make some of Oxford Brookes University buildings more environmentally friendly. Can it be done? How much energy can be saved?

Science Oxford Live welcomes back Professor Colin Blakemore. Don’t miss this chance to hear one of the world’s leading neuroscientists give an insight into what we know – and what we don’t know…

In 2009 Dr Petra Boynton told us what she has learnt in a career as a Sex researcher, educator and agony aunt. Is it possible for science to study the intensely private world…

What makes us Human? Prof Robin Dunbar has spent his career studying what – if anything – marks us out from the rest of nature. Two years after his
sell-out appearance at Science Oxford Live, he’s back…

The swifts that nest each year in the tower of the Natural History Museum in Oxford have been studied since the 1940s. Roy Overall has ringed 5,500 birds as they and their offspring return year after year, and he will introduce us to these fascinating animals.

Science Oxford Space Supremo Ian Griffin introduces some of the stars, planets and constellations that are visible from Oxford, and explains how you can identify them, and how to locate them…

A night of music and science as Physics Professor Brian Foster and violin virtuoso Jack Liebeck link Einstein’s favourite instrument, the violin, with many of the concepts of modern physics that he did so much to found.

On 5 November, Science Oxford Live takes a look at the amazing world of flashes, bangs and colours. Prof Stephen Faulkner will explain how we can take chemistry out of the lab and into the sky on Bonfire Night.

What is personality? How much of an impact does it have on our lives? Dr Jason Rentfrow will present results from the BBC Big Personality Test, which is based on the ‘Big Five’ personality traits…

Join David Acheson, author of the bestselling popular maths book ‘1089 and All That’, on a thrilling and off-beat journey through deep mathematical ideas. Whether you like maths or hate it, come along to discover…

Our senses help us understand the world around us through what we see, hear, taste, smell and feel. Traditionally we are known to have five senses – but do we have any more?…

What defines whether things live or not? What conditions are needed for life to exist? What are the 5 kingdoms of living things? And how did life begin? Take part in our back-to-basics interactive introduction as we explore the science of life.

Science Oxford Live’s 2010 Christmas Lecture will be given by Dr Paul Barrett, the London Natural History Museum’s dinosaur researcher. He will take us on a journey of prehistoric discovery as we unearth some of the weird and wonderful creatures…