Cambridge Science Festival
Discover centuries of science
The 2009 Cambridge Science Festival took place between 9 - 22 March. Visitors found out about the past, present and future of science with over 160 events for all ages.
Video and audio
- What is your favourite scientific discovery?
- Interviews with visitors to the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival exploring favourite scientific discoveries.
- The arithmetic of chaos
- Discover that unpredictability ultimately stems from the properties of numbers.
- Geek Pop podcast
- A podcast recorded at the Cambridge Science Festival by Geek Pop which includes an interview with Carol Vorderman.
- Why do we like to eat?
- Dr Sadaf Farooqi looks at the genetic factors which cause human obesity.
Download with iTunes - Superheroes of Science
- A musical lecture with the Intercontinental Music Lab.
Download with iTunes - A little light relief
- A fun lecture with Peter Wothers all about light.
Download with iTunes - The Naked Scientist
- Popular scientist Dr Chris Smith presents a radio programme on parasites and ultraviolet LED's for clean water.
Download with iTunes - The Garage Laboratory
- Dave Ansell (one of the Naked Scientists) shows why nose snot is good for your lungs, and how to make electricity from hairy legs!
Download with iTunes - In the Blink of an Eye
- Helen Czerski takes us to the Unviersity's physics department (the Cavendish laboratory). Find out how to tell a real diamond from a fake diamond and see the single stage gas gun which can fire objects at 1000s of miles per hour.
Download with iTunes - Its a gas
- Join in the Cambridge Science Festival excitement, and see what Peter Wothers gets up to in his science festival lectures! This lecture is taken from the 2008 Cambridge Science Festival.
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