5 Stages, 56 main stage talks, 80 exhibitors, one day for schools, one weekend for everyone, one amazing festival of ideas and discovery!
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FUTURE STAGE
| 10.45 – 11.35 | An ocean of salt, Helen Czerski |
| 11.55 – 12.45 | The pattern seekers, Simon Baron-Cohen |
| 13.25 – 14.15 | Making sense of screen time, Pete Etchells |
| 14.35 – 15.25 | How to spend a trillion dollars, Rowan Hooper |
| 15.45 – 16.35 | The biggest number in the world, Agnijo Banerjee |
MIND AND BODY STAGE
| 10.45 – 11.35 | The dark history and troubling present of eugenics, Adam Rutherford |
| 11.55 – 12.45 | A brief history of your brain, Emma Byrne |
| 13.25 – 14.15 | The secret body, Daniel Davis |
| 14.35 – 15.25 | Believing the unbelievable: the science of paranoia and conspiracy thinking, Nichola Raihani |
| 15.45 – 16.35 | Rebel Cell: A new view of an old disease, Kat Arney |
OUR PLANET STAGE
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| 10.45 – 11.35 | Hand to mouth: The language puzzle, Gillian Forrester |
| 11.55 – 12.45 | Nomad Century: the great climate upheaval, Gaia Vince |
| 13.25 – 14.15 | Wonderdog! How we came to know that dogs are so smart, Jules Howard |
| 14.35 – 15.25 | Why wasps matter, Seirian Sumner |
| 15.45 – 16.35 | The secret lives of animals, Lizzie Daly |
UNIVERSE STAGE
| 10.45 – 11.35 | The hidden science of weather, climate change and the air that surrounds us, Simon Clark |
| 11.55 – 12.45 | The joy of abstraction, Eugenia Cheng |
| 13.25 – 14.15 | The hidden universe, Emma Osborne |
| 14.35 – 15.25 | Elusive: The story of Peter Higgs and his boson, Frank Close |
| 15.45 – 16.35 | Black holes, Jeff Forshaw |
ENGAGE STAGE
| 10.45 – 11.30 | How I hacked my way into space, J Spooner |
| 11.40 – 12.00 | Neglected tropical diseases and where to find them, Poppy Lamberton |
| 12.00 – 12.40 | Exploring deep oceans, Ghislain Bardout |
| 12.40 – 13.00 | Outsmarting heart disease, British Heart Foundation |
| 13.25 – 14.10 | Live from the Space Shed, J Spooner |
| 14.20 – 14.40 | Why are humans the only talking apes?, Gillian Forrester |
| 14.40 – 15.00 | The wonder of dogs, Jules Howard |
| 15.00 – 15.20 | How to become a YouTube scientist, Dr Simon Clark |
| 16.00 – 17.00 | New Scientist journalists: Ask us anything! |