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Do you want to know the great things that science is discovering and what it can do for you? Come and find out “straight from the horse’s mouth” at New Scientist Live. You will see and hear the latest ideas from some of the world’s most imaginative thinkers
Join us at Excel London between 22 and 25 September 2016 Our festival of ideas will be split into four zones – Brain & Body, Technology, Earth and Cosmos. For four days in September, New Scientist Live will be like no other place on Earth. Interact with scores of researchers and the latest technologies. Find out about everything from artificial intelligence to the discovery of gravitational waves and our latest ideas on that very human condition, consciousness.
come and see Is there life on Mars? Meet what is probably the smartest rover in the solar system. Airbus Defence and Space will be showing off the ExoMars rover, which is part of a joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos. The rover is loaded with kit capable of spotting the biosignatures of life. Above ground, the Martian environment is cold, dry, and bathed in radiation that kills life as we know it, so the ExoMars rover will use ground-penetrating radar to look downwards for likely habitats for life. It will be
able to drill 2 metres beneath the surface, collect samples and conduct high-sensitivity searches for a range of organic molecules. The rover will only be able to “talk” to Earth periodically, so it has a good deal of autonomy. It will have the sensors and intelligence to navigate across the Martian terrain without human guidance.
come and hear Alice Roberts Brain & Body
Becoming human
Why have we humans been so successful? Over 6 million years, we evolved from an insignificant African ape to colonise the globe. Join anatomist Alice Roberts in a journey back through time to find out how we evolved to be the way we are. Alice is professor of public engagement in science at the University of Birmingham and has presented TV programmes including Coast, The Incredible Human Journey, Origins of Us and Prehistoric Autopsy. She has looked deep inside the human body at what makes us tick and what set our distant ancestors apart from other apes.
Technology
Earth
Cosmos
Peter Robinson
Darren Naish
Keith Cowing
It’s just a matter of time before your laptop can tell what mood you are in and react accordingly, reckons Peter Robinson, professor of computer technology at the University of Cambridge. Discover how machines can infer how you are feeling and how such an ability could improve life – especially for people with autism. And what are the dangers of a world where no emotion can pass unread?
So you think you know dinosaurs? We’ve all seen images of them, created from fossilised bones. But these have largely ignored the soft tissue that seldom survives the ravages of time. And living animals behave in ways we’d never guess if we only had bones to go on. Enter Darren Naish, a palaeozoologist at the University of Southampton. He believes that dinosaurs could have been weirder, more extravagant and more surprising than we ever imagined.
Meet the man who masterminded the hijacking of a NASA spacecraft 3 million kilometres away. In 2014, long after the ISEE-3 satellite had been written off as dead, a daring team of engineers and computer programmers decided to try bringing it back to life. Keith Cowing, editor of websites including nasawatch.com, was one of the leaders. The team succeeded against overwhelming odds in doing what NASA once thought impossible.
Main image: ESA
above: Lorian Reed-Drake
Computing dinosaurs with feeling revisited
How to hack a satellite
To find out more and buy your tickets go to newscientistlive.com or call our ticket hotline on 0844 581 1295 As a New Scientist reader you can be first to secure your tickets
Join us at Excel London between 22 and 25 September 2016 Our festival of ideas will be split into four zones – Brain & Body, Technology, Earth and Cosmos. For four days in September, New Scientist Live will be like no other place on Earth. Interact with scores of researchers and the latest technologies. Find out about everything from artificial intelligence to the discovery of gravitational waves and our latest ideas on that very human condition, consciousness.
come and see Is there life on Mars? Meet what is probably the smartest rover in the solar system. Airbus Defence and Space will be showing off the ExoMars rover, which is part of a joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos. The rover is loaded with kit capable of spotting the biosignatures of life. Above ground, the Martian environment is cold, dry, and bathed in radiation that kills life as we know it, so the ExoMars rover will use ground-penetrating radar to look downwards for likely habitats for life. It will be
able to drill 2 metres beneath the surface, collect samples and conduct high-sensitivity searches for a range of organic molecules. The rover will only be able to “talk” to Earth periodically, so it has a good deal of autonomy. It will have the sensors and intelligence to navigate across the Martian terrain without human guidance.
come and hear Alice Roberts Brain & Body
Becoming human
Why have we humans been so successful? Over 6 million years, we evolved from an insignificant African ape to colonise the globe. Join anatomist Alice Roberts in a journey back through time to find out how we evolved to be the way we are. Alice is professor of public engagement in science at the University of Birmingham and has presented TV programmes including Coast, The Incredible Human Journey, Origins of Us and Prehistoric Autopsy. She has looked deep inside the human body at what makes us tick and what set our distant ancestors apart from other apes.
Technology
Earth
Cosmos
Peter Robinson
Darren Naish
Keith Cowing
It’s just a matter of time before your laptop can tell what mood you are in and react accordingly, reckons Peter Robinson, professor of computer technology at the University of Cambridge. Discover how machines can infer how you are feeling and how such an ability could improve life – especially for people with autism. And what are the dangers of a world where no emotion can pass unread?
So you think you know dinosaurs? We’ve all seen images of them, created from fossilised bones. But these have largely ignored the soft tissue that seldom survives the ravages of time. And living animals behave in ways we’d never guess if we only had bones to go on. Enter Darren Naish, a palaeozoologist at the University of Southampton. He believes that dinosaurs could have been weirder, more extravagant and more surprising than we ever imagined.
Meet the man who masterminded the hijacking of a NASA spacecraft 3 million kilometres away. In 2014, long after the ISEE-3 satellite had been written off as dead, a daring team of engineers and computer programmers decided to try bringing it back to life. Keith Cowing, editor of websites including nasawatch.com, was one of the leaders. The team succeeded against overwhelming odds in doing what NASA once thought impossible.
Main image: ESA
above: Lorian Reed-Drake
Computing dinosaurs with feeling revisited
How to hack a satellite
To find out more and buy your tickets go to newscientistlive.com or call our ticket hotline on 0844 581 1295 As a New Scientist reader you can be first to secure your tickets