Summer Science Exhibition 2010

In 2010 The Royal Society, the UK’s academy of science, marked its 350th anniversary, and to celebrate it the Southbank Centre and the Royal Society together explored science and our human impulse to understand the world we live in.

See Further: The Festival of Science + Arts was a unique ten-day festival filling every corner of Southbank Centre this summer. The festival explored links between the sciences and arts and features a host of cross-disciplinary collaborations, scientific and artistic events.

The festival is now closed, and we hope that this website enables you to share in this celebration of science, discovery and creativity.

• A molecule's eye view of water - University College London
• A water mill for Water Mill - Water Mill Primary School
• A window on the brain - Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
• Arctica islandica, the longest-lived animal on Earth - Bangor University; University of St Andrews; Iowa State University, USA; Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany; Natural Environment Reasearh Council Radiocarbon Facility; Natural Environment Research Council Facility for Scientific Diving; British Geological Survey; Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany; Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, The Netherlands; Research into Ageing
• Axe Valley Biodiesel - Exhibitied by Axe Valley Community College and University of Exeter
• Bee inventive! - building the perfect bee house - Stroud High School, the University of Gloucestershire, Global Bee Project
• Biobots - Sittingbourne Community College
• Calcium signalling - getting to the heart of the matter - The Babraham Institute; University of Oxford
• Chemical photography: seeing in a different light - Imperial College London
• Culture evolves! - University of St Andrews; University of Cambridge; University of Edinburgh; University of Stirling
• Designing a giant eye on the sky - the UK Astronomy Technology Centre of the Science and Technology Facilities Council; University of Durham; University of Oxford; The European Southern Observatory
• Diamond Light Source - enabler of new science - Diamond Light Source; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital; Imperial College London; University of Reading; Newcastle University; University of Nottingham; University of Edinburgh
• Embracing uncertainty - the new machine intelligence - Microsoft Research Cambridge
• Emerging infections: viruses that come in from the wild - University of Oxford
• Fast and furious: witnessing the birth of Africa's new ocean - University of Leeds; University of Bristol; University of Oxford; University of Edinburgh; University of Cambridge; British Geological Survey; Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
• Fat body slim: shape matters! - Robert Gordon University
• How do insects find their way home? - University of Sussex
• Improving the magnifying glass: a new giant lens - Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
• Journey to centre of the Earth: the first 23cm - BBSRC Institutes: Rothamsted Research; John Innes Centre
• Leishmania: lessons from a parasite - Imperial College London; University of Addis Adaba, Ethiopia
• Liquid crystals: living cells and flat screen TVs - University of Southampton; University of Manchester; Sheffield Hallam University
• Living in a complex world - University of Bath; Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
• Looking deep into model volcanoes - University of Nottingham; University of Bristol; University of Geneva, Switzerland; Tomoflow Ltd;Forschungzentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
• Looking for buried land-mines with holographic radar - Culham Centre for Fusion Energy; University of Florence, Italy; Franklin and Marshall College, USA; Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia; Walnut Ltd, Tachikawa, Japan
• Meet the algae: diversity, biology and energy - University of Cambridge
• Nanoscale science: a giant leap for mankind - The Davy Faraday Research Laboratory; The Royal Institution of Great Britain; University College London
• Robot detectives - Sherlock Holmes meets Spiderman - London South Bank University
• Songs of the stars: the real music of the spheres - University of Central Lancashire; University of Birmingham; University of Sheffield; Queen Mary, University of London; University of Cambridge; Sheffield Hallam University
• Stem cells for blood transfusion? - MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine at University of Edinburgh; University of Glasgow; Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service; Irish Blood Transfusion Centre; NHS Blood and Transplant; Roslin Cells Ltd.
• The science of shape-shifting structures - University of Cambridge; University of Bristol; Rolatube Technology; The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council