What’s on

Join us throughout 2021 for Climate Talks, a series of panel discussions, Q&As and events exploring the problems caused by climate change.

Explore issues around diversity and inclusion in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) in Open Talk, a new series of online talks sharing the untold stories of science.

Join us for an online discussion of the latest ideas in science and technology—everyone’s welcome!

Speakers including astronauts Helen Sharman and Tim Peake will assess how our work in orbit has helped us appreciate our planet.

Join us on Zoom for two special events as part of the Unify Festival, hosted in partnership with the University of Bradford.

See Jude Palmer’s photographs of award-winning innovations and achievements from engineers fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.

Explore this online exhibition to learn about how digital innovations are helping pathologists diagnose disease.

An online exclusive exhibition of conceptual photographs by Ted Humble-Smith.

Discover surprising science online with lots of fun things to enjoy at home, including videos, activity sheets, games and radio shows.

This exciting online laboratory has plenty of things to watch, do and try, from optical illusions to physics experiments you can do in your kitchen!

Find out more about the world around you—and how you can help to look after it.

People work in science, technology, engineering and maths doing many different things. Find out about some of the exciting jobs that are available and how to get into them.

Explore and play with sound online—try out digital experiments that will help you discover our collection of sound technologies.

Discover the magic of the Echo Machine, an interactive online experiment that lets you explore the amazing sound effects of the echo.

Discover the history of sound postcards, explore some brand new examples created during lockdown, and learn about how they were made.

Have a go with Photophonic, an online music-making machine that uses images to create sounds.