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Enjoy a season of science with our 2018 UK festival picks

Stumble into surprises all over the UK, from the physics of gin at WOMAD and mind-reading at Green Man to time deconstructed at �鶹��ý Live

6 June 2018

Jodrell Bank — Music meets science under Jodrell Bank’s telescope at Bluedot festival
Bluedot

THE 2018 festival scene is gearing up across the UK and it contains some real science gems. So dig out your tent or borrow your mate’s van, pack your waterproof and set out on a festival crawl.

Hurry to (until 10 June), which will explore the connections and divisions that give our world its shape, from our love of pets and the horror of loneliness, to the spread of diseases and the epidemiology of ideas. There is a fair amount of future gazing…

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