What's on
1 – 6 July 2025 | 6 – 9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG
This year's exhibition promises excitement for all ages and interests: the 2025 programme is more diverse than ever, with something fresh to discover each day.
Alongside our 13 main exhibits, available all week, visitors can explore a vibrant line-up of talks, hands-on activities, live demos and immersive experiences, led by Royal Society funded researchers, partner organisations, and special guests.
We open on Tuesday 1 July with our popular adults-only Lates event, where science meets comedy, storytelling, performance, and play. From Wednesday 2 to Friday 4 July, visit the Young Researcher Zone and join daytime talks by the researchers behind our flagship exhibits, with topics ranging from brain surgery without scalpels and sustainable plastics, to X-ray art and the surprising intelligence of flies.
On the weekend (5–6 July), the exhibition welcomes curious families, with hands-on drop-in activities throughout the building. Explore communication technologies from the past, track bird migration with museum archives, engage with live science demos for young explorers and dive into the interactive Quantum Jungle — a one-of-a-kind installation blending physics, art and play. Talks include everything from AI-powered hearts and robots for real-world challenges to the hidden senses of birds and ancient soft-tissue fossils.
Tuesday 1 July 2025

Lates: Quantum Jungle

Lates: The world of Nergal

Lates: Making fun of science

Lates: Trailblazing scientists - celebrating 80 years of women Fellows

Lates: Food for thought and champagne for breakfast

Lates: Unveiling a universe full of black holes

Lates: AI is only responsible when it is democratic

Lates: Inside the ideological brain

Lates: How do plants know when to grow up?

Lates: Demystifying Palm Oil: What are the effects that it is having on our environment?

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Wednesday 2 July 2025

Talk: Why do some people struggle with maths?

Tea ceremony

Talk: Brain surgery without scalpels

Talk: The energy makeover - science, sustainability, and you

Talk: Smart surgical gloves - precision at your fingertips

Talk: The PhotoSYNTH and accessible music making

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Thursday 3 July 2025

Interactive art installation: Quantum Jungle

Talk: The future of inclusive spaceflight

Talk: Fighting superbugs with tiny warriors

Talk: The future of plastics

Talk: The Square Kilometre Array Observatory - big data and transformational science

Talk: Pollution detectives - Daphnia at work

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Friday 4 July 2025

Interactive art installation: Quantum Jungle

Talk: Seeing the unseen - from quantum mysteries to quantum microscopes

Talk: Bioplastics from the deep - how seaweed is reshaping packaging

Talk: Seismic senses - from spiders to elephants

Talk: Quantum: for you, with you

Talk: NanoGlow - lighting up a sustainable future

Talk: Art, science, and 'X-ray vision'

Screening and Q&A: Disability technology

Talk: Bringing the dead alive

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Saturday 5 July 2025

Interactive art installation: Quantum Jungle

Activity: Tech through time: exploring communication of the past

Activity: Migrant journeys

Activity: How pitcher plants catch insects

Talk: Bridging games, art and science

Talk: Stolen body parts, entrapment, paralysis – unseen battles in the ocean world

Talk: Robots for the real world

Talk: Springboards and water slides – how pitcher plants trap insects

Talk: Salty secrets - The search for life on Mars

Talk: Can origami made of DNA help us kill superbugs?

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Sunday 6 July 2025

Quiet entry

British Sign Language (BSL) guided tours of the exhibition

Interactive art installation: Quantum Jungle

Activity: Naturalist’s sojourns in Jamaica and Lincolnshire

Activity: Sand glorious sand: the art of making rocks

Activity: Listen. Sense. See. Move. Understand the Heart

Activity: Data takes flight

Activity: The deep

Talk: Digging the dirt on some of the world’s oldest fossils

Talk: Other worlds

Talk: The secret sense of birds

Screening: Trailblazing scientists - celebrating 80 years of women Fellows

Talk: Building a digital heart with AI

Talk: The birth of planets

Explore main exhibits
Find out more about the 13 main exhibits from world-leading researchers.