Programme of events

Celebrate Science 2012 included events and activities which took place in and around the giant science marquee on Palace Green, as well as a series of  Lively Lectures, which took place each evening.

Exhibits included:

Glassblowing (Chemistry)

Armchair Journeys (SevenStories)

Planetarium (Centre for Life)

Cosmic Origins 3D Movie (Physics)

Cells! (Cancer Research UK)

The Quantum Workshop

Science Buskers (Framwellgate School Durham)

Do you know what your nose knows? (Procter & Gamble)

The Good, Bad and the Ugly in Pathology (Pathology, University Hospital North Durham)

Engineering Your Future (TDR Trust)

The Science behind the Art of the Lindisfarne Gospels (Durham University Palace Green Library)

Ancient Bones, Bodies and Diseases (Bioarchaeology)

Exercise Testing (Sport)

Ninety-nine zillion, nine trillion and two creatures are sleeping! So, how about you?* (Anthropology Sleep Lab) *Dr Seuss’s Sleep Book

Mini-beasts and Micro-worlds (Biology)

Make It to the Moon (Helen Schell/Institute of Physics)

Physics in the Field (Institute of Physics)

Seeing Clearly (Physics)

Spooky Science (Science Learning Centre North East)

Slime Zone, Amazing Materials and Light (Chemistry)

 Planet Earth: Our Home (Earth Sciences)

Power-Packed Science (Foundation Centre)

Visual Illusions (Psychology)