Honeycomb is tough stuff - as anyone who has tried to eat it knows - even though it is very light. The Making Place will help the audience make honeycomb toffee, while thinking about how it is made and what uses there might be for honeycomb structures in industry.

Build a clever machine with levers and pulleys, string and weights, to send a signal round the room. The Institute of Physics' incredible machine builds up during the day, becoming incredibler and incredibler. 

Just when you thought it was safe to come out from behind the sofa, Dr Who’s arch-enemies turn up. Join the queue to be exterminated.

Hold your sister in the palm of your hand. Put your Dad in a bin. Clever photographic trickery from Rock Paper Image harnesses the power of perspective for you.

The Dental Health Spa gives hints about improving your teeth hygiene and shows the latest technology, designed to make your smile a happy, healthy, toothy one.

Experience a top-of-the-range patient simulator that breathes, sweats, bleeds and cries as part of Get Set School’s medical science extravaganza.

Measure your height with a laser courtesy of the National Physical Laboratory. Gravity compresses your spine, so during the day you get shorter. Find out by how much.

A huge variety of plants and animals lives within our cities. Find out about those special places where they thrive and how you can help conserve them.

Help wildlife in your garden or school grounds. This workshop lets you understand about different types of shelter for wildlife and you can make your own bug hotel to take home.

Don’t throw rubbish away, see what Veolia can do with it to make our lives less wasteful, using magnetism, fishing rods, levitation, shopping trolleys, wormeries and water... Get involved, get challenged, get RECYCLING!

Fancy coming face to face with a Madagascan hissing cockroach? James Woodward from Drusillas Park in Alfriston will be along with a selection of bugs for you to befriend.

The ever-popular electronics kits help you build a simple circuit, a helicopter, police siren or a flashing light with no fuss but lots of fun.

Computer science is behind today's technological 'magic' - cs4fn reveal how the same techniques that make the
'magic' work are responsible for some of the most interesting computer science around.

Magpie Environmental Trust shows off our cold, damp, wriggly friends. They make you scream, but without them there would be no soil. The Trust can set-up wormeries for you.

Test yourself under some serious G-Force on the stomach-churning gyroscope ride.

Full range of popular science books for young and old.

Charles Darwin discovered that many birds of the same species have different beaks. Discover how and why - can you work out what they use them for?

Have you ever wanted to swim with dolphins? Well, now you can find out how to save them with the Sea Watch Foundation and their life sized inflatable friend.

Ed has been invited to visit various locations around the world. Discover how ocean systems work, the wildlife Ed has experienced and the damage humans are doing.

Build towers up to three feet tall from the most unlikely materials - spaghetti and marshmallows - with the students of Hove Park Upper School.

What’s the best bridge you can build using only paper and sellotape? A game of teamwork, design and problem solving skills.

Shoreham Beach, just west of Brighton, is a nature reserve of special interest - only the toughest survive on the shifting, sea-washed shingle. Can you find out who thrives by reading the clues?

Paper marbling, Glow stick chemistry and the fabulous B-Z reaction. Make a unique marble print, understand how a glow stick glows and gasp with amazement at B-Z.

Which has most protein, cheese or shampoo? Members of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Sussex let you play with everything protein-y.

Evolution has produced nothing so weird as the beetle, and some of the weirdest are here, including the giant hercules beetle. Peter Scott of the University of Sussex answers all your questions.

Can you drop an egg ten feet without it breaking, using only newspaper, string, elastic bands and sellotape? The only other ingredient is your ingenuity. It can be done.

Have your say on TV. Vox Pops are edited together and played as an interactive exhibit, stimulating debate and allowing everyone to see their contributions.

Herstmonceux Science Centre’s games, models and machines, some simple, some sophisticated.

Weird tools with wonderful uses from history. Join the Tool and Trades History Society to learn more about tools, ancient and modern, their invention and uses.

SEPnet, the South East Physics Network, explore Energy... Where it comes from, where it goes and how we use it. These hands-on demonstrations are fun for all the family.

Jonathan Hare from the the Rough Science and Hollywood Science TV series, has reconstructed some of Newton’s original experimental equipment. See how Newton made his epic discoveries