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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, to mind-reading at Green Man, to time deconstructed at New Scientist Live

By Simon Ings and Liz Else

1 June 2018

Luke Jerram's Museum of the Moon

Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon will illuminate Timber Festival in July

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 the Times Cheltenham Science Festival (5 to 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…

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