Summer Science Exhibition 2007

Welcome to the archive of the 2007 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.

• The big squeeze - The University of Edinburgh
• Building living machines with BioBricks - the promise of synthetic biology - Imperial College London
• Body Sensor Networks - will you be a medalist by 2012? - Department of Computing, Imperial College London, Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London, UK Sport, University of Bath
• Bye-bye blackboard... - Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford
• Journey to the centre of the cell - Institute of Cancer, Barts and The London, Queen Mary’s Medical School, University of London
• CLEVER - Compact Low Emission VEhicle for uRban transport - University of Bath, Stirling Dynamics
• Creating a colourful life - University of Southampton, Loughborough University
• Interactive talk - Deep sea discoveries - Marine Institute, Plymouth University
• A microbial journey through digestion - The University of Reading
• The dynamics of spin - University of Bristol, University of Portsmouth, University of Cambridge, Keio University, Japan
• Generating life on Mars - Balderstone Technology College, University of Manchester
• The primate roots of human language - University of St Andrews
• Life at the top - University of Leeds, University of York, University of Cambridge, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Royal Society SE Asia Rainforest Research Programme, Danum Valley Management Committee/Sabah Foundation, Forest Research Centre, Sabah
• Listen to what the trees are saying - Laval University, Canada , Forest Research Agency, Edinburgh, FibreGen, New Zealand, University of Glasgow, Centre for Timber Engineering, Napier University, Edinburgh
• Living with a star: surviving near our explosive Sun - Imperial College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London , Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , University of Cambridge , University of Central Lancashire
• Matter matters! - ISIS, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
• From music to sand-painting - Department of Materials, Queen Mary, University of London
• The perception deception: maths made optical illusions - Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London, Department of Psychology, CoMPLEX, Vision @ UCL, University College London
• Piranha! The true story of one of nature's most feared animals - School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá, Zoological Society of London
• Polar Meltdown - National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, University of York, representing the NERC-funded Arctic Biosphere-Atmosphere Coupling Across Multiple Scales consortium, British Antarctic Survey
• Protecting the planets - Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, The Open University , Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, University of Leicester, European Space Agency, EADS Astrium, SEA
• The silent aircraft initiative - University of Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• How good a surgeon are you? - Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London
• Deep, dark and disturbed? Underwater scientific explanation using robots - National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Atlantis Marine
• Today's waste, tomorrow's fuel - University of Birmingham, University of Wales, Cardiff , Valeswood ETD Ltd.