51³Ô¹ÏÍø Festival is open! Get your science fix at this year's event
Visitors are treated to robot surgeons, colourful chemistry, tasty street food, and terrific talks and performances as #ImpFest gets underway.
Drizzle couldn't dampen the spirits of more than 500 scientists and performers as they began to entertain the crowds descending on South Kensington.
This year's - the College's seventh - celebrates the Year of Engineering with a special . Other new zones include the for kids of all ages, the and the .
Alongside returning favourites like the , the and the , this year's Festival features more than just great science demonstrations.
(Although those are still pretty great.)
The street food market offers hungry visitors a world of eating options, and the performance tent returns to showcase our students' many talents.
There is also an extensive talks programme. This year, the talks kicked off with Call the Widwife actor Stephen McGann talking about his new book Flesh and Blood.
In conversation with 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Professor Maggie Dallman, Stephen discussed how the book charts the medical mysteries of the McGann family, from the mid-1800s, where they fled the Irish potato famine to end up in poverty in Liverpool, through to the present day.
The talk was live streamed, and you can catch up on it in the video below.
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Hayley Dunning
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