Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght explore what makes humans human and what makes every person an individual.

Build a homemade lava lamp and use a surprising property of citrus fruits to explore the science of floating and sinking.

Learn why bubbles are always round and find out how to make giant bubbles with a couple of wooden spoons and some string.

Make music with wine glasses and squash, and investigate how changing one variable can affect another.

Explore the magical world of static electricity by making charged objects move without touching them.


Become engineers for the day, by building structures out of spaghetti and marshmallows, and investigating the properties of

Try out an amazing trick with a coat hanger and some string, and think about the science of sound.