Glasgow Science Festival 2020
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Glasgow Science Festival turned digital. Featuring loads of free content to enjoy from the comfort of your own sofa!
With thanks to our funders, the Scottish Government and the University of Glasgow.
GSF2020 Online Content
You can still enjoy a range of activities and talks from GSF20 Science on the Sofa, available on our YouTube channel
- Hands-online- enjoy dozens of activities, demo's, experiments & games
- COVID: The Lighthouse Lab- behind the scenes look at the people involved in the Glasgow COVID testing centre
Hands Online
GSF & partners shared dozens of experiments, games, activities, puzzles, comics and so much more for you to do at home, in the classroom and with your pals.
SciArt with BOOM! Community Art
Cereal box robots with Barry from BOOM!
Maths Making Waves
A slow wave from the Mathematics of Waves & Materials group, University of Manchester
It's Soap Challenge Time
The SHIP team at Glasgow Caledonian University discuss how soap kills the nasty bugs and viruses that make us sick. Demonstrating proper hand washing techniques.
Light Up Lockdown: Laser Jelly
Ruaridh Smith, a PhD student at the University of Glasgow, demonstrates how different colour jellies affect how red laser light interacts with it. With the light either absorbed or passing straight through!
COVID Glasgow Responds
Cardiovascular & pulmonary imaging in SARS coronavirus disease-19 (CISCO-19), University of Glasgow
Lighthouse Lab
We met some of the research staff from the University of Glasgow who helped establish Glasgow's Lighthouse Lab COVID testing centre.
Laser Garden
Laser sculpture exhibition by artist and designer, Johnathan Elder.
