Summer Science Exhibition 2009

The 2009 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition is now over - but you can still enjoy the exhibition online.

• Accelerators everywhere: from the Big Bang to curing cancer - University of Oxford, CERN, Cockcroft Institute and ASTeC, Diamond Light Source, Royal Holloway, University of London, ISIS, Surrey Ion Beam centre
• Artist placement: Leah Newman -
• Behind the scenes at the Evolution MegaLab - The Open University, University of Reading, University of Sheffield, University of Manchester, University College London
• Can what happens in the womb last a lifetime? - Imperial College London, King’s College London
• Chasing cancer with a flash of light - Royal Free Hospital, University College London
• Designs for Life - The Oxford Trust, Diamond Light Source , Oxfordshire Federation of the Women’s Institute
• Do you feel like a vet? - The Royal Veterinary College
• Domestic science: Victorian naturalists at home
• Fishing for clues: why medical researchers are glowing with excitement - University of Sheffield
• From fossils to photography: Victorian science -
• From the oldest light to the youngest stars: the Herschel and Planck Missions - Cardiff University, University of Manchester, Imperial College London, University of Cambridge, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
• Holey rocks - Loughborough University, University of Southampton
• How do shapes fill space? - The Open University, Imperial College London, University of Leicester, Royal Institution, British Museum and Birkbeck College, London
• Ladybird, ladybird: unravelling the story of an alien invader - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, University of Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University, Rothamsted Research, University of Hull
• Nature's raincoats - Nottingham Trent University
• Our cosmic origins: building the Milky Way - Durham University, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany
• Plastics from potatoes and rubber from rice - University of Leicester
• Quantum of sol - the next generation of solar cells - Imperial College London
• Science of the oceans - University of Southampton
• The Chewing Robot: a new biologically-inspired way to test dental materials - University of Bristol
• The magic of computer science - Nottingham Trent University, University of Oxford
• The Palaeodetectives: digging up small molecules with big messages from the past - University of Bristol
• The power of sound - Coventry University
• The Snapdragon's tale - John Innes Centre, University of East Anglia
• The teenage brain - a work in progress - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Germany, Birkbeck College, University of London
• You're never too young to be a research scientist - Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys