Summer Science Exhibition 2004

The Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition is a unique opportunity to explore some of today's most exciting science and technology research. From Monday 5 to Thursday 8 July 2004, 25 teams of scientists selected from around the UK, exhibited their outstanding work at the Royal Society in London.

Click on an exhibit below to discover who and what was revealed at this year's Exhibition.

• 410 million years ago in Scotland!
• A 'Molecular Microscope'
• A star is born - fusion powering your future
• Animal locomotion
• Biological cruise missile
• Catch that molecule!
• Dieting for plants
• Exercise turns back the muscle clock
• Face transplantation: fact and fiction
• Fish 'n' Chips - zebrafish, genes and gender-bending chemicals
• Forbidden beauty
• Forever blowing bubbles
• Hearing where it's at
• Hunting for planets in stardust
• Meningitis - from hitchhiker to killer bug
• Our star
• Plant Rescue!
• Seeing single molecules
• Shooting cancers
• Should we judge a book by its cover
• Signals from the sea
• Stars 'R' Us
• Studying the biological continuum
• UK goes to the planets
• Visualising Middle Earth