See a head mysteriously grow and shrink and a coin pass through a solid rubber sheet. Watch water vanish and defy gravity, and observe metals bend using the power of the mind. Dr Adrian Allan from Dornoch Academy is back with a family magic show, along with Adrian Garcia Burgos from Edinburgh University, with the science behind every trick.
Find your way around the night sky in the planetarium. Learn to control a robot. Explore the sights and sounds of underwater seagrass meadows. Find out how to press and preserve seaweed. Build medicinal molecules with Lego. Create working electronic circuits. 3D print with ocean plastic. And much much more!
Romance isn’t easy when you’re a honeybee, says biologist Johnathan Doran: fewer than 1 in 100 males ever get the chance to mate. “It’s a challenge made even tougher by everything from habitat loss and flower shortages to pesticides, construction and noise pollution.”
In a lively presentation for family audiences and everyone interested in the life of bees, he and fellow-biologist Dr Eoin Cowie take a closer look at what’s standing in the way of love for nature’s most famous pollinators. There is a mix of discussion and hands-on science demonstrations along the way.
