Sunday highlights

Work alongside MRC London Insitute of Medical Sciences and Imperial College London researchers to extract a strawberry's DNA, and take it home as a souvenir.

Come along to this relaxed space to drop in and enjoy a show. The programme is packed with interactive storytelling sessions, shows, and demonstrations especially for families.

Design and build your own model mechanoid, recycled robot or cardboard drone that could make the world a better place.

Hear an eclectic range of performances from the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Music and many more!

From formal uchikake to casual yukata, come and find out about Japanese kimonos. Design your own kimono inspired by nature and try on a summer yukata.

Design sugar molecules that can deliver drugs round the body.

Discover the incredible nature and heritage of the Royal Parks, from their smallest invertebrate to their grandest historic landscapes

Explore new flavours and ingredients, as chefs and scientists whip up dishes that you can sample right there and then!

Find your personal environmental cause with an interactive climate action simulator and create placards and banners to take out amongst the Festival crowds.

Create your own digital printing artwork with scientists working on low cost electronics, solar cells and sensors.

Join storytelling engineers at our pop-up sessions especially for children aged five and under.

Explore how molecules of different shapes and sizes are all around and even inside of us during this live interactive show for all the family.

Photographs suspend time and allow us a window into war, love and loss.

Space scientist and BBC broadcaster Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock (MBE) answers all the questions kids have about the universe.

Explore the night sky and hear the story behind one of our favourite constellations.

50 years after the last human left the moon, space scientist and science educator Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock takes us back, exploring folklore, facts, and our plans to return astronauts to the surface.

Poets and space scientist take to the stage to discuss the inspirational nature of space and perform their favourite cosmic poems – including some written by the public over the festival weekend.