Celebrate science this Easter
The Edinburgh International Science Festival is the world’s first and Europe’s largest celebration of science and technology.
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This year, the Festival’s packed programme of more than 140 events runs from Monday 2 to Sunday 15 April in more than 20 venues throughout the city including Wonderama at the Assembly Rooms, the National Museum of Scotland and the Botanics.
Wonderama is THE place for all budding young scientists to be over the Easter holidays. Here you can discover what the Amazon jungle sounds like at night or what it would be like to live in an igloo in the Antarctic.
You can learn how to greet a 5ft robot, unwrap an Egyptian mummy or shrink yourself a zillion times and enter the amazing world of the Bio-bubble. You can also watch TV’s most extreme scientist, festival favourite Dr Bunhead, perform a barrage of spectacular experiments.
The list is endless and the fun starts at 9.30am every day.
Hundreds of science students, graduates, scientists and technologists get involved in the science festival each year taking science out of the lab and sharing it with the wider public.
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This year, you can hear some of the world’s leading scientists debate hot science topics of-the-day in the BIG IDEAS programme which is global, newsworthy and always controversial.
Some of the speakers include scientist and broadcaster Fred Pearce discussing the real impact of climate change; popular writer and broadcaster Dr Raj Persaud exploring body image, depression, addiction and other brain behaviours; Willem Toet behind the scenes at F1 and the distinguished Prof Steve Jones revealing all that coral is able to tell us about the past, present and future of our planet.