Science Live

The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2012

Visit us from 3 to 8 July 2012 in London

The Summer Science Exhibition is an annual display of the most exciting cutting-edge science and technology in the UK.

Browse the exhibits below and read about the events we're hosting.

Speak to me lichen – how clean is the air?

Probing our cosmic origins with ALMA

Animal colours through animal eyes

Young heart for life

Listening to storms and volcanoes

Setting a speed trap for an avalanche

The lung and the short of it

Palimpsests, palaeontology and particle physics

A one hundred year old cosmic mystery

Europe’s lost world - our drowned landscapes

DNA is not your only destiny; epigenetics behind the scenes

Inflammation: the fire of life

A genetic map of the British people

Research to enhance the quality of long life

To infrared and beyond - with Herschel

Insect birth control

LOL: the science and art of laughter

Technology driven by a strange atomic property

Games robots play: interactive behaviour in autonomous robots

POP! The Sound of Bubbles – the science of sensing bubbles