Past Events

Summary: Thousands of planets have now been discovered outside our solar system. Fundamental questions about our own planet's history can now be tested not just with the geological record on Earth,…

• 1 year 10 months ago
• Nihon Room, Pembroke College

Summary: When it comes to relationships, there’s no shortage of advice from self-help ‘experts’, pick-up artists, and glossy magazines. But modern-day myths of attraction often have no basis in fact or – …

• 1 year 11 months ago
• Nihon Room, Pembroke College

Summary: Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) seeks to assemble tiny quantities of deuterium-tritium fuel to conditions of extreme temperature and density such that it will undergo explosive…

• 1 year 11 months ago
• Old Library, Pembroke College

• 3 years 10 months ago
• Pembroke College

Food connects us to some of the most important environmental, societal and ethical issues of the day – climate change, biodiversity loss and water scarcity, hunger in conjunction with obesity, and i…

• 3 years 10 months ago
• TBC

Solar photovoltaics have spread widely in recent years as costs have plummeted. They make up less than 1% of the electricity market today but could be the world’s cheapest energy source by 2030. I w…

• 3 years 10 months ago
• TBC

Elephants are valued by humans across the planet as religious symbols, draught animals, keystone species in conservation and the owners of ivory tusks. But what really interested me about them was…

• 3 years 11 months ago
• TBC

Although the polar regions are now covered in ice and snow, life was very different in Antarctica millions of years ago – Antarctica was green. Fossil plants (fossil leaves, wood, pollen, seeds and f…

• 3 years 11 months ago
• TBC

• 3 years 11 months ago
• Nihon Room

Come visit the Freshers' Squash to find out all about the Stokes Society and the events we hold throughout the year.

• 3 years 11 months ago
• NCR