{"id":262717,"date":"2024-10-18T20:32:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/18\/all-the-action-from-new-scientist-live-in-photographs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:47","slug":"all-the-action-from-new-scientist-live-in-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/18\/all-the-action-from-new-scientist-live-in-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"All the action from New Scientist Live \u2013 in photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There were big beasts, big crowds and big ideas at New Scientist Live, an awe-inspiring three-day festival of innovations and discoveries in London last weekend. Visitors young and old enjoyed a huge range of exhibits from leading research groups and companies working in STEM, including King\u2019s College London\u2019s hospital of the future and a pop-up planetarium.<\/p>\n

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Up close with a Red\u00a0Arrows Hawk aeroplane at the Royal\u00a0Air Force stand<\/p>\n

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Thousands of attendees were treated to close encounters with insects, robots and even a fighter jet, not to mention fearsome dinosaurs stalking the show floor. Thanks to virtual reality, there was also the chance to step inside a nuclear reactor, drive a racing car and ride a rollercoaster.<\/p>\n

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Exploring how the brain works at the Medical Research Council stand<\/p>\n

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On five stages, there were enlightening talks covering a vast range of subjects, from the birth of the universe to the power of artificial intelligence. The speakers included Nobel prizewinner Venki Ramakrishnan on why we die, TV anthropologist Alice Roberts on ancient epidemics, psychologist Kimberley Wilson on eating for better brain health and statistician David Spiegelhalter on how chance rules our lives.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Anthropologist Alice Roberts explores life and death in the Middle Ages<\/p>\n

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Astrophysicist Jo Dunkley on our quest to understand the big bang<\/p>\n

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At the schools\u2019 day on 14 October, palaeontologist Mike Benton delved into dinosaur behaviour, biologist Camilla Pang explained how to think like a scientist and psychologist Dean Burnett told students why their parents are hung up on their phones.<\/p>\n

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Getting the lowdown on insects at the Royal\u00a0Entomological Society\u2019s stand<\/p>\n

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In the Future of Food and Agriculture area, visitors learned how science is changing the way we feed ourselves, with cutting-edge techniques for improving soil health, tackling methane emissions from cows and discovering new crop varieties.<\/p>\n

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Meeting Middlesex University\u2019s selfie robot\u00a0Baxter<\/p>\n

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Young visitors share\u00a0their ideas to\u00a0protect bees from climate change at the\u00a0LEGO stand<\/p>\n

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Festival-goers even had the chance to come up with their own innovations to protect wildlife and build them from LEGO bricks. Master builders constructed the best ideas submitted to our \u201csave the gibbons\u201d competition<\/a>, including a fruit-dispensing \u201csocial hub\u201d and a solar-powered \u201cskyspeaker\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Psychologist Kimberley Wilson explains how to eat for\u00a0better brain health<\/p>\n

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Nobel prizewinning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan (left) is interviewed by doctor and presenter Chris van Tulleken about\u00a0why we die<\/p>\n

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The festival will be back next year from 18 to 20 October \u2013 we hope you can join us for more mind-expanding experiences.<\/p>\n

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