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Ig Nobel logo - The Stinker

Talks and shows

Ig Nobel Awards Tour Show 2025

Sun 06 Apr 2025

Join Ig Nobel founder Marc Abrahams alongside Ig Nobel laureates to celebrate the awards which make you laugh, then think.

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Workshops

Holiday workshops: Drawing & Painting Islamic geometric patterns (age12–14)

Wed 19 Feb 2025
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Talks and shows

How stars built our world

Mon 31 Mar 2025

Discover how stars underly everything we are and do, from the genes in our bodies to measuring time.

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Talks and shows

An Evening of Unnecessary Detail

Sun 02 Mar 2025

Join Festival of the Spoken Nerd and friends for an evening of science, songs, stand-up maths and more!

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Abstract image of letters and numbers on concentric circles

Talks and shows

How the future began

Mon 20 Jan 2025

Join futurist Richard Watson for a look into how we can predict what's to come, and why, despite all our technology, the future

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8 bit images of Wifi Wars hosts

Talks and shows

Wifi Wars Debug XIX

Fri 21 Mar 2025

Wifi Wars is back for another gaming extravaganza

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Blog Two women taking part in a science demonstration involving fire, in a lab

Art, culture and society

A summer of science: my internship at the Ri

I am Jeanne, a third year PhD student in cell biology at the University of Cambridge. This summer, I took a break from my PhD to

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colourful light in this order: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red

Talks and shows

Pride in STEM: Carousel of science

Mon 18 Nov 2024

Join us and Pride in STEM as we celebrate LGBTQ+ in STEM day.

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desert and sky

Talks and shows

For your inspiration: Earth extremes

Fri 08 Nov 2024

Join us and The Grantham Institute as we delve into the extreme environments of our world.

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Drawing of a man's eye

Discourses

Discourse: The scientist and the forger

Fri 27 Sep 2024

Jehane Ragai delves into this ongoing battle between scientists and forgers, revealing the cutting-edge and traditional methods

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