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FAMILY
7pm
Greatest Hits
Science Museum
Stamford Arts Centre
Ticket: £7, Concessions £5
Duration: 1hr
All our favourite science demos
packed into one exhilarating show.
Science Museum
6:30pm
The Dark Side of
the Universe
Dark stuff, the universe, and perhaps
needing some new physics to truly
understand it and change our cosmic
view. That is the opinion of Dr
Catherine Heymans, astrophysicist
at the Institute for Astronomy in
Edinburgh who has used some of the
world’s best telescopes to map a truly
cosmic battle.
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Science Futures
How is science changing our world?
What current research will change the
way we live? What are the big moral
scientific dilemmas of the future?
The King’s School, Grantham
Ticket: £4
Duration: 1hr
Three centuries after the time of Sir
Isaac Newton our understanding of
the planets is still not complete. Just
over 95% of our universe comes in
the shrouded form of dark energy
and dark matter that we can neither
explain nor directly detect.
7.45
St Wulfram’s Church
Ticket price: £7, concessions £5
Duration: 1hr 30mins
Dr Catherine Heymans
Reflections:
Professor Valerie Gibson
Professor Andrew Hunter
Professor John Burn
Dr Melody Clark
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SCIENCE EVENT
Dr Catherine Heymans, astrophysicist
at the Institute for Astronomy in
Edinburgh, has used some of the
world’s best telescopes to map out the
invisible d \