Discovery night 2014: Events by Location
 denotes particularly suitable for younger visitors.
Firth Court
Krebs Café
Exhibits running at regular intervals throughout the night.
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Extreme Ice Cream
Liquid nitrogen ice-cream making.
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Fantastic Conductors, Strange Semiconductors and more
We'll have a number of hands on experiments demonstrating electricity, light and sound.
Virtual reality suite (through double doors near toilets)
To visualise protein structure (see Atom Labs, number 7)
Cheaper than Chips
Nutrition information with samples to taste.
Firth Hall 
All stands in an evening long exhibition
1.
Engineers without Borders: Pedal power!
Pedal powered disco lights
2.
Bioengineering: Medical implants and devices that go in your body
Hip joints, knee implants, coronary stents and vascular grafts etc.
3.
It All Starts Here: The science of human reproduction
Find out about all aspects of reproduction and development from the egg and sperm through to
delivery of the baby.
4.
Lego Robots: Experimental psychology
These Lego robot vehicles react to light, sound and touch. Come and see the robots in action and
talk to our psychologists about their work.
5.
Not Just Teeth: Research at Sheffield Dental School
Researchers from Sheffield Dental School will show interactive exhibits of ground-breaking research,
dispelling any myths you may have that it’s ‘all about teeth’.
6.
Sheffield Cancer Research
Find out what DNA looks like as you become a scientist and perform your own experiment with
strawberries.
7.
Atom-labs: Machines in miniature
Meet the miniature protein machines – the incredible nanobots of nature. Become a scientist and
grow crystals of the germ killing nanobot from egg-white, lysozyme, and take a tour of its structure
in our 3D virtual reality room. (see Krebs café)
8.
Infra-red: Seeing the invisible
With our infrared thermal imaging camera, you will be able to see the invisible. See yourself and
your friends in infra-red and act detective to see invisible footprints.
9.
Magnetic Bacteria
Magnetic bacteria make their own internal nanomagnets for navigation. Come and watch live
magnetic bacteria grown in the University spin around in a magnetic field, see ferrofluids etc.
10.
Protons to Problem Solving: How MRI can unlock the secrets of our brain
There will be fun live demonstrations of the science behind MRI: control a helicopter with the power
of your mind, and bring a water-based object to scan with a real MRI scanner via web-link.
11.
Anatomy exhibits.
See models of the heart and lungs, skeleton and listen to your own heart and play with our
giant digestive system.
12.
Glowing Zebrafish Embryos
***Tours running throughout the evening: sign up outside Firth Hall****
Learn how are using the humble zebrafish to study a range of human diseases. Visitors can use
microscopes to see the beautiful fish embryos in detail – see the heart pumping and blood
circulating. Talk to researchers about the work they do.
Alfred Denny Building (Biomedical Science entrance)
Alfred Denny Conference Room: Evening long exhibitions.
1.
The Stem Cell Promise
Come and grow your own stem cells in our challenge or guide your way through our interactive stem
cell differentiation experience. We’ll also have informative videos, posters and a Q&A session with
our very own experts
2.
How do cells work? - ask an amoeba!
Using genetically modified amoeba, we will use a microscope to make different parts of them light
up and watch the inner workings of a living cell.
Alfred Denny Lecture Theatre 1 - Mini Lectures
Mini lectures. All 20 minutes long plus 10 mins for questions.
4.30pm
Pachyderms, Parasites and Poo: Exploring elephants from the inside out
Come and find out about amazing Asian elephants! In this interactive session we'll be asking, what
(and how much!) do elephants eat, how long do they live and what can we learn by looking at their
poo! This is a family mini-lecture suitable for all, particularly primary school children.
5.30pm
A Guided Tour Of the Brain
Learn all about the weird and wonderful human brain. Come along to find out more about the most
fascinating organ in the body. There'll be videos, quizzes and interactive activities. A family lecture
suitable for all, including younger visitors.
6.30pm
Is Anybody Out There? The search for alien life
Dr Simon Goodwin explains how astronomers are planning to search for life on other planets in the
near future, and what that life might be like, and how it is quite possible that we could discover alien
life in the next 10-20 years. This is a mini lecture suitable for teenagers and adults.
7.30pm
Parasites: The enemy within
Discover some of the parasites that make their homes inside the human body, and the strategies
they use to survive this inhospitable environment. Mini -lecture suitable for older teenagers, A-Level
students and adults
Alfred Denny Lecture Theatre 2 - Lecture demonstrations 30 minutes each.
4.30pm
Dr Nate Adams: What is colour? 
Nate Adams presents what he likes to think colour is, using fire, lasers, and a few colour changing
carnations in this entertaining family lecture with amazing demonstrations.
5.30pm
Isn’t it cold? 
Professor Gillian Gehring reveals the amazing things you can do when you go to -196 ºC using liquid
nitrogen in this family lecture with demonstrations.
Dr Nate Adams: What is colour? 
Repeat of 4.30pm lecture.
6.30pm
Alfred Denny Building - Animal & Plant Sciences dept.
Running as evening long activities unless otherwise stated.
1. Roboplant! Meet the world's first-ever robotic plant and observe photosynthesis in action (in
APS foyer) 
2. Animal And Plant Sciences: Research demonstrations
Join us to find out the latest ground breaking research carried out at Sheffield.
3. Animal And Plant Sciences: Kids’ lab 
Ever wanted to touch your own DNA, find out how to make a bird box, or investigate elephant
poo. Come along to our kids’ science demos, get a lab coat on and join the fun!
4. Prepare To Be Amazed: Illusions 
Come and see the bodiless head, the thaumatrope and other amazing illusions, and find out
how scientists use optical illusions to learn more about how the human brain works. D floor.
5. Exactly What It Says On The tin?
Find out how the food industry checks what's really in our food.
6. Cabinet Of Curiosities: The amazing world of the Alfred Denny Museum
Tours running throughout the evening: sign up in the APS dept.
The zoology museum is home to some curious creatures, including tiny fossilised flying
dinosaurs, a dolphin that turned up at a Sheffield fish market and Arthur, the half-hedgehog.
***Spaces are limited so tour times will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis**.
7. DNA Profiling In Wildlife
Lab tours running throughout the evening: sign in the APS Department
Discover how DNA profiling has revolutionised the study of wildlife and find out what goes on
in one of the most high tech labs in the city.