Edinburgh Science Festival 2025

Celebrating the wonders of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), the Festival programme includes explosive shows and hands-on activities for families and engaging talks and immersive experiences for adults.

The next Festival will run Saturday 5 – Sunday 20 April and will explore the challenges of living on a planet with finite resources, through the lenses of science fiction and space exploration, with the theme Spaceship Earth.

‘Live like an astronaut’ in the battle cry of a new movement that urges us to learn from the constraints of living on a space station, or a distant planet, where resources are impossibly constrained and every gram of material and watt of energy is precious. Transferring these principles to life on Earth would radically reduce the pressures we place on natural resources.

The programme will include lots of contributions from academics, student and practitioners from the University of Edinburgh, including the Decide your climate future event from ECCI at the National Museum of Scotland:

Researchers at Edinburgh Climate Change Institute (ECCI) work to create a resilient Scotland. Climate change can cause us to worry but there are many things we are doing to protect our future. So how do you imagine the future? Researchers from ECCI will showcase our climate change work and together we’ll draw a vision of a thriving future living with climate change in a science (non)fiction world.

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