Since 2005, Brighton Science Festival has been inspiring young minds across Sussex with our flagship Bright Sparks event – a weekend of hands-on, accessible science fun for youngsters and their parents. Twelve years later, we’re shifting the focus of the festival back onto young people. They, after all, are the mad scientists of the future. Continue reading Brighton Science Festival 2017
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Brighton Science Festival
This year’s month-long Brighton Science Festival features 70+ events taking place at nearly 40 venues around Brighton and beyond – from churches and galleries to a village pub and Brighton beach itself.
Festival Director, Richard Robinson, was formerly an actor, puppeteer and a founder member of TV satire show Spitting Image. He has also written nearly 20 books on science, including the best-selling ‘Why The Toast Always Lands Butter-Side Down’. Continue reading Brighton Science Festival
Brighton Science Festival 2013
From before the cradle to beyond the grave
This year the Brighton Science Festival straddles four weekends for four very good reasons.
Firstly (Feb 9-10) All of Life
Science has proved what we always knew: the most important thing in life is sex (Robin Ince’s Dirty Book Club, Friday Feb 8 and The Science of Sex, Saturday Feb 9). We also celebrate the 60th anniversary of the unravelling of life’s blueprint, DNA. Like a bomb that won’t stop exploding, the double helix is still blowing our minds six decades later (DNA DAY, Sunday Feb 10).
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