Timed events: Sunday 18 June

Create your own space poem with award-winning poets and scientists who explore the universe and worlds beyond our own.

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.

A dance performed by local school pupils, a youth group and professionals all inspired by the latest research into blood cancer currently taking place at Imperial College London.

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.

Discover how atoms absorb and emit light to colour our world. Don some headphones and hit the dance floor, boogying to atomic spectra and finding the parallels between light and sound waves.

Join a live recording of the Robot Talk Podcast to explore how much science fiction influences how we see the future of robotics – for good and for bad.

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

Britain's first astronaut, Helen Sharman, hosts maritime experts for a discussion on submarines, autonomous drones, satellite measurements, and other technologies that will help us go where no human has gone before.

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.

Professor David Nutt explores the history of mind-altering drugs in science and society.

Architecture studio Cookies, in partnership with Imperial College London and Institut Français, will explore how ancient craft and knowledge can be an inspiration for cutting-edge materials science.

Esther Osarfo-Mensah tells her awesome story of diving back into the world of academic science and finding community.

Hear how a dyslexia diagnosis powered self-discovery and growth.

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.