Experts head to British Science Festival
The British Science Association is behind the festival
The annual British Science Festival kicked off on Saturday (5th September) and promises a week of debate, hands-on science experiments and new discoveries.
Taking place at the University of Surrey and various other venues across Guildford this year, over 400 leading researchers will be attending the British Science Association event to host presentations and talks on topics from climate change to the latest computer developments.
This year, the festival is working in partnership with Darwin Now to mark 200 years since Charles Darwin's birth, while 2009 also marks the International Year of Astronomy, meaning there will be a variety of activities around the themes of stars and planets.
Among the various studies being unveiled at the festival is research into how Facebook can help to improve people's memories, conducted by Dr Tracy Alloway of the University of Stirling, and a study into the variation in people's morality levels undertaken at Brunel University.
Details of a new project which aims to repopulate the short-haired bumblebee in the UK for the first time in almost a decade will also be revealed.
Scientists at the Bumblebee Conservation Trust are planning to bring the species over from New Zealand, marking the first time bees have been reintroduced to any country after the indigenous population died out.
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