Episode 25: Brighton Science Festival

Angi Mariani and Jenni Davidson discover why WD40 is so called; how long a second really is; how Werner Forssmann catheterised his own heart and about the feud between two great scientists, Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke. Learn about these incredible things and more at the Brighton Science Festival.

Brighton is renowned for its great annual festivals covering music, art, film and food: Brighton Festival, Brighton Festival Fringe, Artists Open Houses, The Great Escape, Brighton Live, Cinecity, Brighton & Hove Food & Drink Festival… there’s simply loads going on! And just as exciting and even more explosive is the Brighton Science Festival. Founded by science writer and Spitting Image puppet creator, Richard Robinson, each year the festival attracts enquiring minds of all ages to find out everything from astrophysics to zombie science, from how many friends one can feasibly have to what your brains are made of.

‘Use it or lose it’ is this year’s theme, and there are events galore covering the science behind food, symmetry, movies, politics and much more. Science writers Dr Michael Brooks, Mark Stevenson, Alex Bellos and many others feature in the festival, alongside bubble physicist, Dr Cyril Isenberg. Always packed out, get ready for next year’s amazing Brighton Science Festival…

See all the explosive fun and excitement from this year’s Brighton Science Festival in the new episode of Brighton Lights presented by Val Aviv. Watch it online now at www.thelatest.tv