We think the world around us is absolutely fascinating. Understanding and affecting how it works through science and technology is incredibly rewarding. We love looking at a subject from slightly unconventional angles to make it more understandable.

We do this directly by writing and performing science shows and by generating written explanations of phenomena, and indirectly by designing and building science demos and hands-on science exhibits.

Science Exhibits

Have you ever wondered how astronomers know so much about distant galaxies when we have never even sent a probe to the sun. The answer is spectroscopy, and this allows you to explore different lights and what colours make them up.
A wheel full of a mixture of sands. If you turn the wheel you will get a series of avalanches, which separate it into different colours in a fascinating way.
A couple of stripped down telescopes, just some lenses and mirrors, hanging in space, until you look through two of them and you have a large telescope.
An exhibit to communicate the complexity and skill involved in making lace in an accessible way.

Science Demonstrations

A framework to support an interesting chiral 3D solid for a festival workshop.
A 3D model showing a zoomed in version of the colon wall, with lots of mucus and bacteria.
A model robot that can be used to visualise the transcription of DNA to RNA and then to a protein
A demo that is used to help explain gene therapy to the families of people who may need it as a therapy.

Favourites

This is a wonderful way to feel the conservation of energy. Turn the handle and switch on lights, and as you use more energy, turning the handle gets harder.
A ball or marble run is a good exhibit, but if you add a way of lifting the balls back up to the top again you get something great.
Build your own machine with gears, pulleys, cams, and other mechanical devices.
Interrupt a laser beam and you can produce clicks, pull a piece of mesh or patterned fabric across it, and you can make notes, play tunes, or even produce speech.

Science Shows

A high-energy, high-demo whistle-stop tour of the development of lighting technologies.
How do we make light? What is colour? Why do newspapers have strange coloured spots at the edges? Find out in our light show.
What is electricity? How is it generated? How does it relate to a microwave, and what has this all got to do with Greek cats and leg hair? Watch our electricity show to find out.
A brief trip around the science of gasses, what happens if you squash then, stretch them, heat them and cool them. Involving liquid nitrogen, and our infamous repeating vacuum bazookas.

Commisions FP

An exhibit to communicate the complexity and skill involved in making lace in an accessible way.
A very simple plaiting exhibit to let visitors have a go at straw plaiting patterns
A framework to support an interesting chiral 3D solid for a festival workshop.
We were asked to build a case to hold 48 raspberry pis and a switch into a 3U rack mount case.