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WELCOME 2 9 U N M I S S A B L E TA L K S I N C L U D I N G …
If you’re even the slightest bit curious about science and why it Main stage, 3.30pm
matters then New Scientist Live is for you. From 20 to 23 September,
we’re transforming ExCeL in London’s Docklands into the most exciting place in HANNAH FRY
the universe. Choose from more than 120 talks, interactive demos and exhibits to Best Consumer Show
experience an atmosphere and energy like no other festival. WOULD YOU TRUST
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Over the next five pages you’ll find a taste of what’s to come. Have your mind
They’re already telling us what to watch, where
blown by talks from world-leading scientist such as David Reich, Sarah-Jayne
to go and even who to send to prison. Should we
Blakemore and Carlo Rovelli. Be entranced by superb storytellers like brain Consumer Event
of the Year be worried?
surgeon Henry Marsh and children’s favourite Maddie Moate.
See how ground-breaking discoveries like gene editing, AI and immunotherapy
are coming to life. Peek behind the scenes of Blue Planet II for unseen footage
from the abyss. Discover how fast the internet could get and learn about the Cosmos stage, Technology stage, Earth stage,
technology that will change our lives. Find out how to eat smarter, live longer Event of the Year 11.45am 2.30pm 3.45pm
and be healthier thanks to the latest advances in science. DARK SIDE OF MATHS VERSUS AI CONSERVATION
THE UNIVERSE DRONES
Will an artificial
There are five zones packed full of exhibits for you to explore and where you’ll
More than 95 per cent of intelligence take over the Drones are
meet scientists with a passion for ideas, innovation and discovery. Get your
Best Consumer Show our universe is invisible. world? Mathematician revolutionising how
hands dirty making slime and test its properties in our Slime Olympics. Hug
Do we need new physics Nira Chamberlain has we monitor wildlife
a hissing cockroach, take a selfie with a spacecraft, see drones in action and
to explain it, asks the answer and its habitats,
discover what the real Palaeolithic diet was like.
astrophysicist Catherine says Serge Wich
Heymans
Prepare to be entertained and inspired by a festival you’ll be talking about for
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Find out how engineer Mancini is looking for
Valerie Jamieson Lidia Galdino gets an ways to teach the brain
Content director enviable 120 million to cope with incurable
megabits per second pain
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Brain surgeon
Henry Marsh
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JIM AL-KHALILI CARLO ROVELLI
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GRAVITY THE NATURE OF TIME
What is time? Physicist Carlo Rovelli explains
PAUL STEAD
that the answer is far more complex than you
might imagine
Humans stage, Earth stage, Engineering stage, Technology stage, Main stage, Humans stage, Cosmos stage, Technology stage,
11.45am 1.15pm 1.15pm 2.30pm 10.30am 11.45am 2.30pm 3.45pm
IS AUTISM ARE TODAY’S HOW TO WIN THE SHOULD ROBOTS CHRIS AND XAND IS A HEALTHY GUT IS ANYBODY OUT THE ULTRA CYCLE
A GIFT? CROPS LESS AMERICA’S CUP HAVE RIGHTS? VAN TULLEKEN THE SECRET TO THERE? DIARIES
NUTRITIOUS? HAPPINESS?
Cognitive scientist Sailing’s most Roboticist Patricia TV’s favourite twin GPs What are the chances Find out what fitness
Anna Remington’s Botanist James Wong prestigious prize is Vargas on the pressing on how to lose weight, Megan Rossi (above) of finding life on Mars, gadgets told Daniel
research is revealing examines the evidence about design, innovation questions facing the find love and live forever explores the surprising Europa or Titan, asks Brayson about his body
many strengths linked and busts a few myths and technology. fields of medical and without really trying connection between the Louisa Preston and mind during a 4000
to autism along the way America’s Cup racer robot ethics bacteria that live in the kilometre cycle race
Mark Chisnell explains gut and the brain
all Speakeasy stage,
11am and 12.40pm
STORY TIME WITH
MADDIE MOATE PLUS
PLUS What ancient DNA tells
From a book about
Bobby Seagull on the us about who we are
bees to a space-walk
magic of numbers, and where we came
story, Maddie brings
Rangan Chatterjee from, inside teenagers’
the characters and
on a simple route to brains, how green is the
adventures to life
better health, the life Arctic becoming?
and death of London’s
blue whale and
what makes your
brain happy
NASA
See who else is speaking at newscientistlive.com/day2 See who else is speaking at newscientistlive.com/day3
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EXPERIENCE
Every day you’ll find a wealth of things to
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see, hear, touch, play with and learn across
Main stage, 12pm five stimulating zones:
BLUE PLANET II, UNSEEN
Marine biologist Jon Copley reveals the stories of
the extraordinary creatures he filmed deep below the SLIME SELFIE ROBOT YOUR BODY
surface of the world’s coldest ocean for Blue Planet II OLYMPICS AS YOU’VE
Smile for Baxter, the world’s
friendliest robot NEVER SEEN IT
Fluffy? Scented? Stringy?
Glittery? Print out an ECG of your
Cosmos stage, Earth stage, Humans stage, Engineering stage, heart, discover if you
2pm Bring your own or mix the
10.30am 10.30am 1.15pm are still growing with an
slime of your dreams in the
LIVING ON SHOULD WE LIFE IN THE THE WORLD’S ultrasound machine and
slime lab. Put your magnificent
MARS(ISH) GENE EDIT NEANDERTHAL MOST POWERFUL see inside your eyeball
goo through its paces in the
FARM ANIMALS? HOME LASER with an iPhone
Niamh Shaw took part Slime Olympics. Will your gunk
in a simulated Mars New gene editing Matt Pope explores what Ceri Brenner on the be the stickiest, slipperiest or
the Neanderthal home
mission in the Utah technology promises
was like and overturns
incredible science and stringiest slime of them all? ENTER THE
desert. Hear what healthier, meatier innovation made
happened animals, says Bruce popular misconceptions possible with intense
PREHISTORIC
Whitelaw. Should we laser beams VIRTUAL REALITY ZONE
use it? ROLLERCOASTER
Technology stage,
Craft your own flint tool, make
3.45pm Take a seat, put on a prehistoric fidget spinner
and discover what the paleo
DIGITISING LIFE a headset and buckle up MEET diet was really like in our
for a gut-wrenching ride
Biologist Anjali Goswami THE SPEAKERS Stone-Age supermarket
hopes to fill gaps in
the fossil record using Book signings and selfies with
big data and new your favourite speakers at
technology Blackwell’s bookshop
PLUS EXPLORE
Sean Carroll on the SPACE
many worlds of quantum
mechanics, the legacy Immerse yourself in the
of Stephen Hawking, the night sky, try the Soyuz
NIAMH SHAW
truth about vaping, the simulator and discover the
rise and fall of dinosaurs latest space missions
See who else is speaking at newscientistlive.com/day4 See what else you can do at newscientistlive.com/experience
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20 – 23 Sept 2018
ExCeL London
Grow your mind, find a new passion and hear from
the scientists shaping the world at more than
120 talks and interactive exhibits including:
SIMPLE ROUTE TO
BETTER HEALTH SECRETS OF
THE TEENAGE BRAIN
CHRIS AND XAND
VAN TULLEKEN’S SHOW
MADDIE MOATE’S THE LEGACY OF
SCIENCE STORY TIME STEPHEN HAWKING
LIVING ON MARS(ISH)
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