'Science Up Close 2016 '

Sci- Tech Daresbury Lab is a leading centre of science, innovaton, technology and business in rural cheshire and we got an opportunity to visit this wonderful lab as part of family event 'Science Up Close' happened on last week end which we came to know through other home edders. You can try your hand at programming mini robots and immerse yourselves in the virtual worlds and science experiments. The lab was opened for fist time to the public in the last 10 years and was an amazing opportunity for children and adults to know about wide range of telescopes, comets, galaxies, how MAGLEV trains work. There were models of  particle accelerators  and how did they work in cancer detection, Large Hadron collider tunnel, kitchen science activities including mixing various daily kitchen items, 3D printing, esp. ALICE that can help in very early identification of cancers.

Below is a infra red camera and explains how infra red captures heat from our body and the image in the screen explains whether he/ she got hot or cold nose by looking at the shades. Since body gives off radiation in the form of heat- we call this infra red radiation. This type of cameras can be used to measure sea surface temperatures from outer space.

Model of a Comet

                                       Kitchen Sience

One professor was conducting hands on workshop on model of atoms and explaining about protons, neutrons and electrons. It was great to know about Quarks which is explained as the elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter, which was a very new information to me. In addition, she was talking about leptrons, different types of quarks, dark matter, matter and non matter and so on..

There was a science activity zone with lots and lots of hands on activity for family to get involved  and was a brilliant day.