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  • Welcome to the 2025-2026 season

    Welcome to the 2025-2026 season

    The first event of the 2025-26 programme is almost here (2nd September) and to kick off the season, in a change to our usual format, we will be having a science quiz and social event; usual time, usual place. We look forward to seeing you there! This season’s programme is shaping up nicely and further…

  • Cancelled: no cafe Tuesday 4th March 2025

    Cancelled: no cafe Tuesday 4th March 2025

    Unfortunately, we have been unable to find a speaker for the March Cafe. We have therefore had to take the difficult decision to not hold a cafe in March. We continue to work hard to find speakers for the remainder of this year’s programme and expect to host our next event in April as planned. We have…

  • Normal service will hopefully be resumed in the near future…

    Normal service will hopefully be resumed in the near future…

    You may have noticed the website has a new look. This wasn’t planned. During the ‘covid years’, lots of websites such as ours suffered an unprecedented level of nefarious activity from all kinds of people, from those looking to exploit websites to use in criminal activities to kids doing the digital equivalent of breaking in…

  • Welcome to 2023!

    Welcome to 2023!

    The 2022/2023 programme continues on 10th January, usual place, usual time. As usual, the January event is delayed by a week to provide a bit of space after Christmas and New Year.

  • Online science talks

    Online science talks

    Some additional science content to keep you busy over the summer whilst Salisbury Cafe Sci will not be running any talks.

  • Update on COVID-19 lockdown

    Update on COVID-19 lockdown

    During this time of lockdown, with events such as ours having had to be cancelled, we wanted to stay in touch and update you regarding the remaining talks this season.

  • Bloodhound is go!

    Bloodhound is go!

    Following on from the April 2017 talk, an update on the recent live runs of the Bloodhound SSC car as it continues on track to break the 1000mph target speed.

  • Kurzgesagt – ‘In a nutshell’

    Kurzgesagt – ‘In a nutshell’

    Kurzgesagt present a YouTube channel chock full of really interesting, informative science videos presented as humourous, informal animated short films.

  • September Talk – UPDATE – Change of Speaker!

    Dr Caroline Wheeler is no longer able to make it so her talk on the Science of Sleep has been replaced by a talk from next year’s programme featuring Dr Adrian Bowyer talking about Self-replicating Manufacturing Machines.

  • Events in Salisbury for July

    Events in Salisbury for July

    July has a couple of interesting events which Salisbury Cafe Sci folk may find interesting, in addition of course to our own July talk from Dr David Read talking about his research on biofuels. First is a Question Time style debate looking at the latest developments in the world of genomics, how this is changing medicine and…