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Many of our shows and activities have now booked out, but – if you’re quick – you can still make sure of some seats for some of the great shows and activities on offer.
Punk Science
Looking more like a stage invasion at Glastonbury than a science lesson, the Punk Science crew present climate change in a whole different light.
The Punks look at what exactly climate change is with an enormous live demo of the greenhouse effect - and cover a range of topics from poo power to wind farms to nuclear energy.
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: 300 Million Year War
Plants might seem passive, defenceless and almost helpless...but they are most definitely not! Thanks to a war with animals that's lasted over 300 million years, they've developed many terrifying and devious ways to defend themselves and attack their enemies.
Vicious poisons, lethal materials and even cunning forms of communication with unlikely allies are just some of the weapons in their armoury. Using these and other tactics, plants have seen off everything from dinosaurs to caterpillars.
Repeated for the first time in the UK, The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures come to the Big Bang in Manchester 2010 - where Prof Sue Hartley will show you plants as you've never seen them before.
Date Published: February 22, 2010
