Come to the (science) fair on 3 October!
Want to find out how to assemble a human skeleton? Do you know what chemistry can be found around you? And are you easily fooled by fake news? Discover this and more at our Science Fair on 3 October.
This year’s 3 October University is going large for a very special celebration: 450 years of 3 October! Together with Augustinus student association, Leiden University is putting on a Science Fair packed with stalls full of facts, games and quizzes for young and old. Below is a taster. Stop by at Steenschuur by the Kamerlingh Onnes Building from 11.00 to 13.00 to see this and much more.
Noughts and crosses with added quantum
Always wanted to know what exactly quantum is? Or a Higgs boson? Or how elementary particles work? Stop by our stall and develop your intuition for these concepts (no prior knowledge needed) in two games: noughts and crosses and Elementary. Elementary transports you to the world of elementary particles in a variation of the card game Happy Families. Noughts and crosses takes you to the world of quantum computers in a quantum version of noughts and crosses.
The Great Fake News Quiz
Are you easily fooled by fake news? And how sure are you that the history you learned at school is true? Take our Great Fake News Quiz, with questions about fake news on social media, journalistic trickery and historical fakery. And learn how to sniff out fake news.
You are more musical than you think!
How fast can you recognise a song? Do you have a good sense of rhythm and timing? Do you have perfect pitch? Play the mini-games and find out how musical you are and what science has to say about this.
What’s your favourite food?
We can talk about good food till the cows come home but do you really know what food appeals to you most? Researchers from the Institute of Psychology have developed a task that shows them what food you feel most attracted to at a specific moment. Do you know your taste as well as you thought you did? And want to know how your taste compares to others? Test it at the Science Fair!
Destination Regeneration
Did you know that lizards can drop their tails to distract predators? And that they can promptly grow a new one again. They use stem cells for this. In biology we call this regeneration. We humans cannot just grow a new arm but we can use the concept to heal people. We call this regenerative medicine. Want to find out how it works?
Come to our stall and find out what it means to be chronically ill. And learn how our researchers are using regenerative medicine to heal such patients in the future. Join us on a journey to Destination Regeneration.