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First events announced for Edinburgh Science Festival 2025
The first events in the 2025 Edinburgh Science Festival have been announced.
These include the first American woman to walk in space, Dr Kathy...
Director of Edinburgh Science to step down
Dr Simon Gage, OBE who has been involved with Edinburgh Science for three decades, and 29 of those as the CEO and Director, is...
Edinburgh Science Festival – A Climate of Change
Edinburgh Science Festival presented a talk on Thursday evening between Patricia Espinosa, Ambassador of Mexico to Germany since 2012, former Minister of Foreign Affairs...
Nicola Sturgeon cancels attendance at Science Festival
This evening's Science Festival event was to be a discussion between the former First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, and Patricia Espinosa the Ambassador of Mexico...
Edinburgh Science Festival 2023 begins on Saturday
The 2023 edition of the Edinburgh Science Festival begins on Saturday, 1 April.
This year’s theme is Let's Experiment and Edinburgh will be transformed into...
Edinburgh Science Festival 2023 – Let’s experiment!
The message from the science festival team is a simple one: Let's experiment!
This year's programme uses 31 venues and intends to get everyone hands...
Hibs and Edinburgh Science team up to beat energy crisis
Known for its climate work and producing the annual Science Festival, Edinburgh Science charity, has teamed up with Scotland’s greenest football club, Hibernian, to...
‘It’s a wrap!’ as ESF 2022 closes after another successful edition
The Edinburgh Science Festival has truly came back from a challenging period in history with a bang, doing what it does best – live,...
Edinburgh Science Festival celebrates Earth Day with Earth, Wind and Gaia
As Edinburgh Science Festival enters its final weekend this Friday there are a host of exciting events coinciding with Earth Day 2022 and highlighting...
Consumer habits challenged by major new exhibition at The Mound
Living on Earth are over 7 billion people and our ever-increasing collective thirst for 'stuff' is detrimentally affecting the way we live. But there...
‘Dig up a Dinosaur’ with ESF at City Art Centre this Easter holiday
Edinburgh Science Festival - on from now until 24 April - has sci-curious minds of all ages covered this Easter holidays!
Valentina Maia (archaeologist), 7...
DATASPHERE, Edinburgh Science Festival’s new major exhibition at NMS
Taking centre stage at Edinburgh Science Festival 2022, DataSphere is an innovative, multi-media and free exhibition which is set to immerse audiences in the...
Edinburgh Science Festival 2022 looks forward to City Art Centre return
Celebrating the upcoming launch of Edinburgh Science Festival 2022 on Saturday 9 April, as well as City Art Centre’s long-awaited return as the Festival’s...
2021 ESF is a wrap as dates and theme announced for 2022
The world’s first and still Europe’s biggest science festival, the 33rd Edinburgh Science Festival wrapped up yesterday, on Sunday, 11 July, having connected sci-curious...
Edinburgh Science Festival leaves no stone unturned
Edinburgh Science Festival’s closing weekend has a wide range of in-person trails, exhibitions and walks to discover and a bank of digital content which...
Culture Minister Jenny Gilruth visits ESF’s Elemental
Jenny Gilruth, the Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development, visited Elemental, a new interactive multimedia art installation at Summerhall as part of 2021...
Prestigious Edinburgh Medal awarded to Prof. Heidi Larson
Professor Heidi J. Larson, PhD, Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science and the Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London...
Edinburgh turns into a science playground this summer
Presenting over 200 digital and in-person events for sci-curious minds of all ages with the theme of One World: Science Connects Us and Cirrus...
Ben Macpherson MSP gets hands-on with science at Edinburgh Science Festival
Ben Macpherson MSP, Minister for Social Security and Local Government and MSP for the Edinburgh Northern and Leith constituency visited SciMart – a farmers...
ESF virtual gallery of future green spaces presented by the British Ecological Society
The British Ecological Society (BES), in collaboration with SMASH-UK, will be presenting - as part of this year’s Edinburgh Science Festival - a virtual gallery...
‘In Memoriam’ – Luke Jerram’s new touring artwork installed in the Botanics
Luke Jerram’s In Memoriam, which will be presented as part of this year’s Edinburgh Science Festival, is a touring art work displayed at the...
The hybrid 2021 Edinburgh Science Festival kicks off its 33rd edition tomorrow
The world’s first, and still Europe’s biggest, science festival - The Edinburgh Science Festival – kicks off its hybrid, 33rd edition tomorrow, Saturday 26...
33rd edition of ESF focuses on women in STEM.
The world’s first, and still Europe’s biggest, Edinburgh Science Festival starts this week and celebrates women in STEM with a large-scale street art trail...
Toolkit launched by Edinburgh Science charity to help UK businesses reach net zero carbon
We are in a climate emergency and the scientific consensus is clear on that. To address this, necessary and ambitious targets are being set...
Edinburgh Science Festival – first event Human Nature photography exhibition now on
With programming for the planet at its core, the 2021 Edinburgh Science Festival which will run from 26 June – 11 July focuses on...
Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project awarded Edinburgh Medal
The 2021 Edinburgh Science Festival awarded the prestigious Edinburgh Medal to anthropologist and author Heidi Larson, the Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project...
2021 Edinburgh Science Festival programme launches
Edinburgh Science has revealed the programme for its annual Science Festival, the world’s first and still Europe’s biggest. This year the festival moves away...
‘The Human Swan’ visits Edinburgh ahead of her appearance at ESF
Sacha Dench, ‘The Human Swan’ - an inspiring conservationist, adventurer and motivational speaker, visited Edinburgh today (13th May) to film her talk for the...
#EdSciFest – Elements of #EdSciFest now available online – listen to our podcast here
The Edinburgh Science Festival cannot take place this year in its normal way, but that is not stopping the innovative team behind it.
They...
#EdSciFest – now available online
Elements of #EdSciFest: Edinburgh Science Festival goes digital!
Elements of #EdSciFest is a digital reiteration of Edinburgh Science Festival 2020, was cancelled due to the...
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